From: Dave Benjamin <ramen@...>
Date: 2003-11-19T08:52:18+09:00
Subject: String startswith/endswith in Ruby?

Hi all,

I'm a Python user trying to learn a bit of Ruby. I was wondering if there's
a common way of writing "startswith" and "endswith" expressions for strings
in Ruby.

For instance:

s = 'Hello, world!'
s.startswith('Hello')    >> true
s.endswith('!')          >> true
s.endswith('asdf')       >> false

I'd like to avoid having to calculate the length of the string I'm searching
for; I'd prefer not to have to write "s[0..4] == 'Hello'" or similar.

Thanks!
Dave

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