Does Ruby have a string startswith abc built in method

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Does Ruby have a some string starts with  abc   method that s built in

User · Accepted Answer

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

User · Answer

You can use String    Regex  It returns position of full regex match in string   irb gt    abc      r abc      0   gt  true irb gt    aabc      r abc      0   gt  false

User · Answer

If this is for a non-Rails project  I d use String index    foobar  index  foo      0      gt  true

User · Answer

Your question title and your question body are different  Ruby does not have a starts with  method  Rails  which is a Ruby framework  however  does  as sepp2k states  See his comment on his answer for the link to the documentation for it   You could always use a regular expression though   if SomeString match   abc         SomeString starts with abc     means  start of string  in regular expressions

[ruby] Does Ruby have a string.startswith("abc") built in method?

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