From: Thomas Sawyer Date: 2010-06-04T19:24:39+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:30585] [Bug #3388] regexp support for start_with? and end_with? Bug #3388: regexp support for start_with? and end_with? http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/3388 Author: Thomas Sawyer Status: Open, Priority: Normal ruby -v: 1.9.2dev ruby-1.9.2-head > "aBcdeFghIj".start_with?(/abc/i) => false In my implementation of start_with? it is easy enough to utilize #index, which works fine: def start_with?(pattern) index(pattern) == 0 end But #end_with? is more difficult, and I had to use regular expressions. def end_with?(suffix) suffix = Regexp.escape(suffix) if String===suffix /#{suffix}$/.match(self) ? true : false end However, we might get rid of the '? true : false' and return the MatchData, since that could be useful information. ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org