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Request #67035 wish: str_ends() and str_begins()
Submitted: 2014-04-06 15:32 UTC Modified: 2018-03-10 13:51 UTC
Votes:3
Avg. Score:1.7 ± 0.9
Reproduced:1 of 3 (33.3%)
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From: php at richardneill dot org Assigned: cmb (profile)
Status: Duplicate Package: Strings related
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 [2014-04-06 15:32 UTC] php at richardneill dot org 
Description:
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It would be really useful to have standard functions:
  str_ends()  and str_begins()

These are trivial to implement, but the use for them is so extremely common that they'd be a helpful addition to the standard library. It's also not quite obvious to beginners how to do it - especially for str_ends().
For comparison, Javascript has string.startsWith() and string.endsWith()

Examples below. Thank you for your consideration and your time.

Test script:
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function str_ends($string,$end){
	return (substr($string,-strlen($end),strlen($end)) === $end);
}
	
function str_begins($string,$start){
	return (substr($string,0,strlen($start)) === $start);
}

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 [2014-04-14 12:59 UTC] malalaimo923 at gmail dot com 
Please see this document: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php

It is possible to access and modify a character of a string using an index.

The String End is: $string[strlen($string)-1];
The String Start is: $string[0];
 [2014-04-14 13:26 UTC] php at richardneill dot org 
Hello, and thanks for your comment. That wasn't quite what I meant. I intended the functions to return a boolean, (as per my examples in the original request). Not "str_end()"  which would return the final character, but "str_ends()", i.e. "does this string end with that string".

For example:
    if (str_ends($filename, ".jpg")){ ...
or 
    if (str_begins($url, "https://")){ ...


I do realise these are relatively trivial, but given how common this kind of construction is, I think they'd be useful to lots of people as a convenience.
 [2018-03-10 13:51 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Duplicate -Assigned To: +Assigned To: cmb
 [2018-03-10 13:51 UTC] cmb@php.net 
Duplicate of feature request #50434.
 
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