From: Matt Armstrong <matt@...>
Date: 2002-04-01T23:54:51+09:00
Subject: Re: String#begins?(s)

Michael Brailsford <brailsmt@yahoo.com> writes:

>> class String
>>     def begins?(s)
>>         self[0...(s.size)] == s
>>     end
>> end
>> 
>> Worthwhile?
>
> Maybe I am missing the point, but why do you need something like
> this?  If you want to know the first char in a string just use
> something like aString[0] == aChar.  If you want to know if a
> sequence starts a string use regex's.

I agree.  I can imagine the RCR.

    Can we make String#begin? take a regexp?  So "foo".begin?(/f/)
    would be just like "foo" =~ /\Af/?



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matt