An operation is case insensitive when uppercase and lowercase characters are equally treated.
Questions tagged [case-insensitive]
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PHP & Case Sensitivity
In PHP, variable and constant names are case sensitive, while function names are not.
As far as I am aware, PHP is the only language in which this happens. All other languages I have used are either totally case sensitive or totally case…
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How to do case-insensitive order in Rails with postgresql
I am in the process of switching my development environment from sqlite3 to postgresql 8.4 and have one last hurdle.
In my original I had the following line in a helper method;
result = Users.find(:all, :order => "name collate NOCASE")
which…
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How to change spaces to underscore and make string case insensitive?
I have following question. In my app there is a listview. I get itemname from listview and transfer it to the webview as a string. How to ignore case of this string and change spaces to underscores?
For example: String itemname = "First Topic". I…
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Case insensitive string comparison in Go
How do I compare strings in a case insensitive manner?
For example, "Go" and "go" should be considered equal.
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How do I ignore case when using startsWith and endsWith in Java?
Here's my code:
public static void rightSel(Scanner scanner,char t)
{
/*if (!stopping)*/System.out.print(": ");
if (scanner.hasNextLine())
{
String orInput = scanner.nextLine;
if (orInput.equalsIgnoreCase("help")
{
…
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django-orm case-insensitive order by
I know, I can run a case insensitive search from DJango ORM.…
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Case insensitive string replacement in JavaScript?
I need to highlight, case insensitively, given keywords in a JavaScript string.
For example:
highlight("foobar Foo bar FOO", "foo") should return "foobar Foo bar FOO"
I need the code to work for any keyword, and therefore…
Antti Sykäri
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Ignore case in Python strings
What is the easiest way to compare strings in Python, ignoring case?
Of course one can do (str1.lower() <= str2.lower()), etc., but this created two additional temporary strings (with the obvious alloc/g-c overheads).
I guess I'm looking for an…
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MongoDB and C#: Case insensitive search
I am using MongoDB and the C# driver for MongoDB.
I recently discovered that all queries in MongoDB are case-sensitive. How can I make a case-insensitive search?
I found one way to do this:
Query.Matches(
"FirstName",
…
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CSS selector case insensitive for attributes
If I have an HTML element a css selector needs to be case-sensitive:
input[value='Search'] matches
input[value='search'] does not match
I need a solution where the case-insensitive approach works too. I am…
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Git: File Rename
I wanted to rename a folder from "Frameworks" to "frameworks", but git would not let me add the new lowercase name. I guess it treats filenames case insensitive, does it?
A git add frameworks/ -f didn't help
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How can I make the map::find operation case insensitive?
Does the map::find method support case insensitive search? I have a map as follows:
map > directory;
and want the below search to ignore case:
directory.find(search_string);
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Can PHP's glob() be made to find files in a case insensitive manner?
I want all CSV files in a directory, so I use
glob('my/dir/*.CSV')
This however doesn't find files with a lowercase CSV extension.
I could use
glob('my/dir/*.{CSV,csv}', GLOB_BRACE);
But is there a way to allow all mixed case versions? Or is this…
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Using sed to delete a case insensitive matched line
How do I match a case insensitive regex and delete it at the same time
I read that to get case insensitive matches, use the flag "i"
sed -e "/pattern/replace/i" filepath
and to delete use d
sed -e "/pattern/d" filepath
I've also read that I could…
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Running a case-insensitive cypher query
Is it possible to run a case-insensitive cypher query on neo4j?
Try that: http://console.neo4j.org/
When I type into this:
start n=node(*)
match n-[]->m
where (m.name="Neo")
return m
it returns one row. But when I type into this:
start n=node(*)…
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