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Naveed
Naveed

Reputation: 42103

How to know that a string starts/ends with a specific string in jQuery?

I want to know if a string starts with the specified character/string or ends with it in jQuery.

For Example:

var str = 'Hello World';

if( str starts with 'Hello' ) {
   alert('true');
} else {
   alert('false');
}

if( str ends with 'World' ) {
   alert('true');
} else {
   alert('false');
}

If there is not any function then any alternative ?

Upvotes: 215

Views: 264438

Answers (6)

kator
kator

Reputation: 959

ES6 now supports the startsWith() and endsWith() method for checking beginning and ending of strings. If you want to support pre-es6 engines, you might want to consider adding one of the suggested methods to the String prototype.

if (typeof String.prototype.startsWith != 'function') {
  String.prototype.startsWith = function (str) {
    return this.match(new RegExp("^" + str));
  };
}

if (typeof String.prototype.endsWith != 'function') {
  String.prototype.endsWith = function (str) {
    return this.match(new RegExp(str + "$"));
  };
}

var str = "foobar is not barfoo";
console.log(str.startsWith("foob"); // true
console.log(str.endsWith("rfoo");   // true

Upvotes: 2

A. Wheatman
A. Wheatman

Reputation: 6378

You can always extend String prototype like this:

//  Checks that string starts with the specific string
if (typeof String.prototype.startsWith != 'function') {
    String.prototype.startsWith = function (str) {
        return this.slice(0, str.length) == str;
    };
}

//  Checks that string ends with the specific string...
if (typeof String.prototype.endsWith != 'function') {
    String.prototype.endsWith = function (str) {
        return this.slice(-str.length) == str;
    };
}

And use it like this:

var str = 'Hello World';

if( str.startsWith('Hello') ) {
   // your string starts with 'Hello'
}

if( str.endsWith('World') ) {
   // your string ends with 'World'
}

Upvotes: 11

Lukáš Lalinský
Lukáš Lalinský

Reputation: 41306

One option is to use regular expressions:

if (str.match("^Hello")) {
   // do this if begins with Hello
}

if (str.match("World$")) {
   // do this if ends in world
}

Upvotes: 406

Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali

Reputation: 222621

You do not really need jQuery for such tasks. In the ES6 specification they already have out of the box methods startsWith and endsWith. 

var str = "To be, or not to be, that is the question.";
alert(str.startsWith("To be"));         // true
alert(str.startsWith("not to be"));     // false
alert(str.startsWith("not to be", 10)); // true

var str = "To be, or not to be, that is the question.";
alert( str.endsWith("question.") );  // true
alert( str.endsWith("to be") );      // false
alert( str.endsWith("to be", 19) );  // true

Currently available in FF and Chrome. For old browsers you can use their polyfills or substr

Upvotes: 22

Sebastien P.
Sebastien P.

Reputation: 719

There is no need of jQuery to do that. You could code a jQuery wrapper but it would be useless so you should better use

var str = "Hello World";

window.alert("Starts with Hello ? " + /^Hello/i.test(str));        

window.alert("Ends with Hello ? " + /Hello$/i.test(str));

as the match() method is deprecated.

PS : the "i" flag in RegExp is optional and stands for case insensitive (so it will also return true for "hello", "hEllo", etc.).

Upvotes: 23

sje397
sje397

Reputation: 41832

For startswith, you can use indexOf:

if(str.indexOf('Hello') == 0) {

...

ref

and you can do the maths based on string length to determine 'endswith'.

if(str.lastIndexOf('Hello') == str.length - 'Hello'.length) {

Upvotes: 104

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