Ruby Basic Exercises: Check whether a string starts with 'if'

Ruby Basic: Exercise-5 with Solution

Write a Ruby program to check whether a string starts with "if".

Ruby Code:

def start_if(str)
   return str[0, 2] == "if";
end
print start_if("ifelse"),"\n"
print start_if("endif"),"\n"

Output:

true
false

Flowchart:

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