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Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 21:46:52 +0200
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Subject: [PHP-DEV] Can we make str_(starts|ends)_with variadic?
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From: hans@loltek.net (Hans Henrik Bergan)

Can we make  str_(starts|ends)_with variadic?
PR: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/18825
Code like
```php
if (str_starts_with($url, "http://") || str_starts_with($url, "https://")) {
    // url
}
if (str_ends_with($filename, ".pdf") || str_ends_with($filename,
".doc") || str_ends_with($filename, ".docx")) {
    // document
}
$isValidExtension = false;
foreach ($validExtensions as $needle) {
    if (str_ends_with($str, $needle)) {
        $isValidExtension = true;
        break;
    }
}
if ($isValidExtension) {
    // valid extension
}
```
could then be replaced with
```
if (str_starts_with($url, "http://", "https://")) {
    // url
}
if (str_ends_with($filename, ".pdf", ".doc", ".docx")) {
    // document
}
if(str_ends_with($str, ...$validExtensions){
    // valid extension
}
```

Fwiw Python support str.endswith((".pdf", ".doc", ".docx"))