From: Ryan Pavlik <rpav@...>
Date: 2003-09-13T06:15:54+09:00
Subject: Re: String#start_with? / #end_with?

On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 06:07:24 +0900
Philip Mak <pmak@aaanime.net> wrote:

> Is there a built-in method in Ruby for checking whether a string starts
> with or ends with a pattern? e.g.:
> 
>     "Hello, world".start_with?("Hello") => true
>     "Hello, world".start_with?("world") => false
> 

Like this? ;-)

    "Hello world".match /^Hello/   # => MatchData
    "Hello world".match /^world/   # => nil

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Ryan Pavlik <rpav@mephle.com>

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