From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2010-06-04T23:25:18+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:30586] Re: [Bug #3388] regexp support for start_with? and end_with?

On Jun 4, 2010, at 5:24 AM, Thomas Sawyer wrote:

> 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

$ does not mean the end of the data in a regular expression.  It means the end of the line.

\z would be more correct.

James Edward Gray II