Returns whether self
starts with any of the given string_or_regexp
.
Matches patterns against the beginning of+self+. For each given string_or_regexp
, the pattern is:
string_or_regexp
itself, if it is a Regexp
.
Regexp.quote(string_or_regexp)
, if string_or_regexp
is a string.
Returns true
if any pattern matches the beginning, false
otherwise:
'hello'.start_with?('hell') # => true 'hello'.start_with?(/H/i) # => true 'hello'.start_with?('heaven', 'hell') # => true 'hello'.start_with?('heaven', 'paradise') # => false 'тест'.start_with?('т') # => true 'こんにちは'.start_with?('こ') # => true
Related: String#end_with?
.