PHP startsWith() and endsWith() functions
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        Published on 2009-05-07T12:14:27Z
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I need two functions that would take a string and return if it starts with the specified character/string or ends with it.
For example:
$str='|apples}';
echo startsWith($str,'|'); //Returns true
echo endsWith($str,'}'); //Returns true
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