Unexpected results for `str_starts()` when use pattern containing `"|"`

[psychelzh]

See the following example:

stringr::str_starts("A1", "T")
#> [1] FALSE
stringr::str_starts("A1", "\\d")
#> [1] FALSE
stringr::str_starts("A1", "T|\\d")
#> [1] TRUE

^{Created on 2022-07-31 by the reprex package (v2.0.1)}

[psychelzh]

Also found this SO. So perhaps it is a documentation issue?

But I do think it is better to support this behavior because base startsWith() supports this, and it is more intuitive.

[psychelzh]

Ah, I am sorry. This might have been solved by #340. So when will there be a new release?

[hadley]

Not sure. Hopefully in the next couple of months.