Ruby String Exercises: Check whether a string starts with an other string

Ruby String: Exercise-9 with Solution

Write a Ruby program to check whether a string starts with an other string.

Ruby Code:

def check_string(my_string, substr)
   return my_string.start_with?(substr)
end
print check_string("JavaScript", "Java")
print "\n",check_string("Python", "PHP")

Output:

true
false

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