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

You can use String =~ Regex. It returns position of full regex match in string.

irb> ("abc" =~ %r"abc") == 0
=> true
irb> ("aabc" =~ %r"abc") == 0
=> false