Clojure

Add starts-with? and ends-with? to clojure.string

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  • Type: Enhancement Enhancement
  • Status: Open Open
  • Priority: Minor Minor
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • Affects Version/s: Release 1.6
  • Fix Version/s: None
  • Component/s: None
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Description

Add clojure.string/starts-with? and ends-with? similar to java.lang.String's startsWith/endsWith. In addition to making these easier to find and use, this provides a place to add a portable ClojureScript variant.

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Alex Miller added a comment -

Re substring, there is a clojure.core/subs for this (predates the string ns I believe).

clojure.core/subs
([s start] [s start end])
Returns the substring of s beginning at start inclusive, and ending
at end (defaults to length of string), exclusive.

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Alex Miller added a comment - Re substring, there is a clojure.core/subs for this (predates the string ns I believe). clojure.core/subs ([s start] [s start end]) Returns the substring of s beginning at start inclusive, and ending at end (defaults to length of string), exclusive.
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Jozef Wagner added a comment -

As strings are collection of characters, you can use Clojure's sequence facilities to achieve such functionality:

user=> (= (first "asdf") \a)
true
user=> (= (last "asdf") \a)
false
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Jozef Wagner added a comment - As strings are collection of characters, you can use Clojure's sequence facilities to achieve such functionality: 
user=> (= (first "asdf") \a)
true
user=> (= (last "asdf") \a)
false
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Alex Miller added a comment -

Jozef, String.startsWith() checks for a prefix string, not just a prefix char.

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Alex Miller added a comment - Jozef, String.startsWith() checks for a prefix string, not just a prefix char.
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Bozhidar Batsov added a comment -

Re substring, I know about subs, but it seems very odd that it's not in the string ns. After all most people will likely look for string-related functionality in clojure.string. I think it'd be best if `subs` was added to clojure.string and clojure.core/subs was deprecated.

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Bozhidar Batsov added a comment - Re substring, I know about subs, but it seems very odd that it's not in the string ns. After all most people will likely look for string-related functionality in clojure.string. I think it'd be best if `subs` was added to clojure.string and clojure.core/subs was deprecated.
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Pierre Masci added a comment -

Hi, I was thinking the same about starts-with and .ends-with, as well as (.indexOf s "c") and (.lastIndexOf "c").

I read the whole Java String API recently, and these 4 functions seem to be the only ones that don't have an equivalent in Clojure.
It would be nice to have them.

Andy Fingerhut who maintains the Clojure Cheatsheet told me: "I maintain the cheatsheet, and I put .indexOf and .lastIndexOf on there since they are probably the most common thing I saw asked about that is in the Java API but not the Clojure API, for strings."
Which shows that there is a demand.

Because Clojure is being hosted on several platforms, and might be hosted on more in the future, I think these functions should be part of the de-facto ecosystem.

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Pierre Masci added a comment - Hi, I was thinking the same about starts-with and .ends-with, as well as (.indexOf s "c") and (.lastIndexOf "c"). I read the whole Java String API recently, and these 4 functions seem to be the only ones that don't have an equivalent in Clojure. It would be nice to have them. Andy Fingerhut who maintains the Clojure Cheatsheet told me: "I maintain the cheatsheet, and I put .indexOf and .lastIndexOf on there since they are probably the most common thing I saw asked about that is in the Java API but not the Clojure API, for strings." Which shows that there is a demand. Because Clojure is being hosted on several platforms, and might be hosted on more in the future, I think these functions should be part of the de-facto ecosystem.

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