From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-11-27T14:21:06+09:00
Subject: Re: String startswith/endswith in Ruby?

Hi,

At Wed, 19 Nov 2003 08:52:18 +0900,
Dave Benjamin wrote:
> s = 'Hello, world!'
> s.startswith('Hello')    >> true
> s.endswith('!')          >> true
> s.endswith('asdf')       >> false

I often use

  class String
    def startswith(sub)
      rindex(sub, 0)
    end
    def endswith(sub)
      index(sub, -sub.length)
    end
  end

-- 
Nobu Nakada