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An operation is case insensitive when uppercase and lowercase characters are equally treated.

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Postgres case insensitive searching with Rails

My development database is SQLite but I deploy my app to Heroku and they are using PostgreSQL. Now sometimes I have two different results coming out if I perform searches because PostgreSQL is case-sensitive but SQLite is not. Shouldn't Rails…
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git merge fails with "Untracked working tree file" on case change

On Mac OS X, I have two branches - say A and B - and I want to merge A into B. When I try to do git merge A on B, I get: error: Untracked working tree file 'path/file.php' would be overwritten by merge. Aborting This is caused by the fact that…
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Case-insensitive Query

I have some ticket numbers that may have numbers and letters mixed. I'll be passing in the ticketNumberIds into this method (user input) and I want it to query against the Oracle database and have the query pick up tickets that differ by upper and…
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How to prevent git from committing two files with names differing only in case?

We develop in a mixed environment - some people work on Macs and some work on Linux. This has proven to be a bit of a challenge at times, as those people who work on Linux are used to having their filesystems be case sensitive, so there's no issue…
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HTTPURLResponse allHeaderFields Swift 3 Capitalisation

Converting to Swift 3 I noticed a strange bug occur reading a header field from HTTPURLResponse. let id = httpResponse.allHeaderFields["eTag"] as? String no longer worked. I printed out the all headers dictionary and all my header keys seem to be…
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Make ArrayList element case-insensitive

In my Java application i need to compare two list's element whether it is similar or not. In short suppose i have two list declared like shown below List a = new ArrayList(); a.add("one"); a.add("three"); …
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Are uppercase utf8 characters always the same number of bytes as their lowercase variants?

Obviously it is true for the latin alphabet. But I'm asking this in a conceptual sense, across languages and the Unicode spec. Practically this came up for comparing two strings. If you already know they aren't the same number of bytes—across all…
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SelectNodes with XPath ignoring cases

I have a problem finding elements in XPath that's contains a certain string ignoring character casing. I want to find in a HTML page all the nodes with id contains the text "footer" ignoring it's write in uppercase or lowercase. In my example I have…
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How does Windows do case-insensitive file names and paths?

On Windows, file comparisons are case insensitive operations. However, a truly case insensitive system would be sensitive to locale settings, and would have to deal with three cases, rather than two (at least, according to Unicode). For various…
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Python case insensitive file name?

I need to load a file given it's name, but the name I get is case insensitive. "A.txt" could actually be "a.txt". How to do this the fast way (not generate all possible names and try each)?
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Postgres 12 case-insensitive compare

I'm attempting to move a SQL Server DB which is used by a C# application (+EF6) to Postgres 12 but I'm not having much luck with getting case-insensitive string comparisons working. The existing SQL Server db uses SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS…
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How to make regex case-insensitive?

I have this javascript code but when i send this: asd.JPG the regex fails to me.. if (data.match(/([^\/\\]+)\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|tiff|tif)$/i)) return { filename: RegExp.$1, ext: RegExp.$2 }; else return { filename: "invalid file type",…
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Spring Data Mongodb findBy In case insensitive

I'm trying to create a Spring Data MongoDB repository method that could perform case insensitive search for fields from a given list, that is functionality similar to SQL 'IN' operator. In my repository I have following methods: User…
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Part of String Case Insensitive in JavaScript Regex (?i) option not working

I am using Nodejs to build application in which I need to process certain strings I have used the JS "RegExp" object for this purpose. I want only a part of my string in the regex to be case insensitive var key = '(?i)c(?-i)ustomParam'; var find =…
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