ends_with

Written by Balazs Halasy, 02/05/2004 Updated 02/26/2010 by Ester Heylen Maintainers: Balazs Halasy, Ester Heylen

Summary

Checks if a string ends with a specific character/sequence.

Usage

input|ends_with( sequence )

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Required
sequence	string	The string that should be matched.	Yes.

Returns

TRUE if there is a match, FALSE otherwise.

Description

This operator checks if the input string ends with a specified sequence of characters. If yes, the operator returns TRUE, otherwise FALSE will be returned.

Examples

Example 1

{'Linux is great!'|ends_with( 'great!' )}

Returns TRUE.

Example 2

{'Linux is great!'|begins_with( 'Linux' )}

Returns FALSE.

Contributors

Balazs Halasy Author 02/05/2004 Maintainer
Ester Heylen Updated 02/26/2010 Maintainer
chs Commenter 08/19/2008

Comments (1 historical)

Written by readers of the earlier documentation sites, kept as they were.

Typo in example ?

chs · 08/19/2008 09:58 am

Isn't the second example somewhat wrong as it uses the begins_with() operator instead of ends_with() ?

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