[Issue 1590] std.string.startsWith and endsWith please

[Derek Parnell]

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:07:23 +0000 (UTC), d-bugmail at puremagic.com wrote:

> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1590
> 
> andrei at metalanguage.com changed:
> 
>            What    |Removed                     |Added
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>              Status|NEW                         |ASSIGNED
> 
> ------- Comment #1 from andrei at metalanguage.com  2007-10-19 13:07 -------
> The functions hasPrefix(E1[] longer, E2[] shorter) and hasSuffix(E1[] longer,
> E2[] shorter) will be part of the next minor release and work with all sensible
> combinations of E1 and E2.

And I assume it returns a boolean?

  What happens in the edge cases? Such as 

     hasPrefix("abc", "abc");
     hasPrefix("abc", "");
     hasPrefix("",    "abc");
     hasPrefix("",    "");

    
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