From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2003-11-19T09:02:18+09:00
Subject: Re: String startswith/endswith in Ruby?

il Tue, 18 Nov 2003 23:45:43 -0000, Dave Benjamin
<ramen@lackingtalent.com> ha scritto::

>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.

http://extensions.rubyforge.org/rdoc/classes/String.html

then click on starts_with and ends_with and you'll see the code.
BTW had'nt matz accepted to add these methods to the standard String
class?