start_with?(*args) public

Returns true if str starts with a prefix given.

p "hello".start_with?("hell")               #=> true

# returns true if one of prefix matches.
p "hello".start_with?("heaven", "hell")     #=> true
p "hello".start_with?("heaven", "paradice") #=> false
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May 3, 2012
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Starts with a Capital Letter

(or any regular expression you’d like)

'Abracadabra'[0..0] =~ /[A-Z]/       # => true
May 17, 2012
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Starts with capital letter alternative

Just adding an anchor to the regular expression seems simpler (and was faster in my benchmarks, not that that matters much):

'Abracadabra' =~ /^[A-Z]/