From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2003-11-19T16:52:17+09:00
Subject: Re: String startswith/endswith in Ruby?

il Wed, 19 Nov 2003 09:03:54 +0900, Harry Ohlsen
<harryo@qiqsolutions.com> ha scritto::

>Hi David,
>

>While using a regex to do something so simple seems a bit excessive, looking for a value at the start or end of a string is really just a special case of a more general problem, which regex matching solves very neatly.

well, IMO It is less error prone, may be implemented in a faster way,
and is more clear to the casual reader. 

Plus, like every builtin it avoide reinventing the weel.
Did you noticed 4 people gave 3 different answers?


another quick way to do it :
 if 'ciao'[/iao$/]

:)
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