how to pass a variable to *args function parameter

Question

I have the following line of code:

str.start_with?("str1", "str2", "str3")

Is it possible I can pass a variable/list into this function instead? Something like:

list_of_strs = ["str1", "str2", "str3"]
str.start_with?(list_of_strs)

Answer 1

Use * to expand the array.

str.start_with?(*list_of_strs)