From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-09-13T09:54:56+09:00
Subject: Re: String#start_with? / #end_with?

On Saturday, September 13, 2003, 7:07:24 AM, Philip 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

> http://www.rubygarden.org/article.php?sid=312 suggests that such a
> method was suggested for inclusion into Ruby, but I don't see it in
> version 1.8.0.

You might get somewhere with this:

  str = "Hello, world"
  str["Hello"] == 0         # -> true

Dunno about :end_with? though.

Gavin