Testing whether string starts with or end with another string

Question

How should I check whether a string starts or ends with a given string? There doesn\'t seem to be any built-in methods available (or maybe it\'s just the IDE I\'m using that isn

Answer 1

string.start_with?("substring")
string.end_with?("substring")

Returns true or false

Source:

http://ruby-doc.org//core-2.2.0/String.html#method-i-start_with-3F

http://ruby-doc.org//core-2.2.0/String.html#method-i-end_with-3F