Does Ruby have a string.startswith(“abc”) built in method?

Question

Does Ruby have a some_string.starts_with(\"abc\") method that\'s built in?

Answer 1

It's called String#start_with?, not String#startswith: In Ruby, the names of boolean-ish methods end with ? and the words in method names are separated with an _. Not sure where the s went, personally, I'd prefer String#starts_with? over the actual String#start_with?