No startswith,endswith functions in Go?

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Just curious to findout: why aren't there standard functions like startswith, endswith, etc as part of the standard libraries in the Go programming language?

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Solution 1 - String

The strings package contains HasPrefix and HasSuffix.

import "strings"

startsWith := strings.HasPrefix("prefix", "pre") // true
endsWith := strings.HasSuffix("suffix", "fix") // true

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Solution 2 - String

If you are working with bytes, you can use these functions from the bytes package:

package main

import (
   "bytes"
   "fmt"
)

func main() {
   fmt.Println(bytes.HasPrefix([]byte("Gopher"), []byte("Go")))
   fmt.Println(bytes.HasPrefix([]byte("Gopher"), []byte("C")))
   fmt.Println(bytes.HasPrefix([]byte("Gopher"), []byte("")))
}

It will be less costly than converting to string first. Useful if you are reading in from an HTTP request, or reading from a local file.

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