programming-examples/python/Regular_Expression/Where a string will start with a specific number.py

import re  
def match_num(string):  
    text = re.compile(r"^5")  
    if text.match(string):  
        return True  
    else:  
        return False  
print(match_num('5-2345861'))  
print(match_num('6-2345861'))