From: dblack@...
Date: 2003-09-13T09:42:54+09:00
Subject: Re: String#start_with? / #end_with?

Hi --

On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Mark Wilson wrote:

>
> On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 05:20 PM, Philip Mak wrote:
>
> > [snip]
>
> class String
>
>    def start_with?(little_string)
>      !self.match(/^#{Regexp.escape(little_string)}/).nil?
>    end
>
> end
>
> > [snip]
> >
> >     big_string.start_with?(little_string)

All of the snippets in this thread will run aground on the fact that ^
anchors to start-of-line, not start-of-string.  You'd want to use the
\A anchor for the latter.


David

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