From: Jari Williamsson <jari.williamsson@...>
Date: 2007-11-06T21:30:40+09:00
Subject: Start of string?

What't the most elegant way to find a substring match at the very start 
of a string?

Currently I'm using this approach:
a = "long string"
key = "long"
if a[0, key.length] == key then

...while this might look ok, it doesn't look so good with constant strings:
if a[0, 4] == "long" then
or
if a[0, "long".length] == "long" then

I guess what I'm looking for is something like:
if a.startswith("long") then

Is there any such solution?


Best regards,

Jari Williamsson