diff -r 8175ba2b3bcb -r 5577d6c27a33 src/ucx/string.h
--- a/src/ucx/string.h	Sun Nov 03 16:22:46 2019 +0100
+++ b/src/ucx/string.h	Sun Nov 03 16:34:29 2019 +0100
@@ -938,6 +938,44 @@
 #define sstrsuffix(string, suffix) scstrsuffix(SCSTR(string), SCSTR(suffix))
 
 /**
+ * Checks, if a string has a specific prefix, ignoring the case.
+ * 
+ * @param string the string to check
+ * @param prefix the prefix the string should have
+ * @return 1, if and only if the string has the specified prefix, 0 otherwise
+ */
+int scstrcaseprefix(scstr_t string, scstr_t prefix);
+
+/**
+ * Checks, if a string has a specific prefix, ignoring the case.
+ * 
+ * @param string the string to check
+ * @param prefix the prefix the string should have
+ * @return 1, if and only if the string has the specified prefix, 0 otherwise
+ */
+#define sstrcaseprefix(string, prefix) \
+  scstrcaseprefix(SCSTR(string), SCSTR(prefix))
+
+/**
+ * Checks, if a string has a specific suffix, ignoring the case.
+ * 
+ * @param string the string to check
+ * @param suffix the suffix the string should have
+ * @return 1, if and only if the string has the specified suffix, 0 otherwise
+ */
+int scstrcasesuffix(scstr_t string, scstr_t suffix);
+
+/**
+ * Checks, if a string has a specific suffix, ignoring the case.
+ *
+ * @param string the string to check
+ * @param suffix the suffix the string should have
+ * @return 1, if and only if the string has the specified suffix, 0 otherwise
+ */
+#define sstrcasesuffix(string, suffix) \
+  scstrcasesuffix(SCSTR(string), SCSTR(suffix))
+
+/**
  * Returns a lower case version of a string.
  * 
  * This function creates a duplicate of the input string, first