#50434 [NEW]: add string functions str_startswith and str_endswith for convenience

From: mail at daniel-faber dot de Operating system: PHP version: 5.2.11 PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description: add string functions str_startswith and str_endswith for convenience Description: ------------ Please add these two string functions for convenience: boolean str_startswith($string, $prefix) // true if $string starts with $prefix, false otherwise boolean str_endswith($string, $suffix) // true if $string ends with $suffix, false otherwise Of course one can easily write these functions in PHP, but having them in the PHP core would be nice. You find them in other languages too: Java: string.startsWith(prefix) and string.endsWith(suffix) Python: string.startswith(prefix) and string.endswith(suffix) -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=50434&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50434&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50434&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50434&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50434&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50434&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50434&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50434&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50434&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50434&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50434&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50434&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50434&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50434&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50434&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50434&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50434&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50434&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50434&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50434&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50434&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50434&r=mysqlcfg