No startswith,endswith functions in Go?

Question

Just curious to findout: why aren\'t there standard functions like startswith, endswith, etc as part of the standard libraries in the Go programming language?

Answer 1

The strings package contains HasPrefix and HasSuffix.

import "strings"

startsWith := strings.HasPrefix("prefix", "pre") // true
endsWith := strings.HasSuffix("suffix", "fix") // true

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