From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-09-27T22:41:07+09:00
Subject: Re: String starts? and ends? methods

On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 10:25:44PM +0900, Dirk Meijer wrote:
> to be honest, i don't really think this is that useful.
> what wrong with
> 
> string=~/^start/
> string=~/end$/
> 
That's almost right.
You want /\Astart/ and /end\z/
> this seems to be self-explanatory enough.
> greeting, Dirk.