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

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May I safely treat email addresses lower case?

In theory emails are case sensitive. But using emails as system login I want them to be all lower case (i.e. john@smith.com and John@smith.com cannot be different users). Can this be a problem for some users who use case sensitivity in their email…
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Tweaking Bash 'cd' and TAB completion to recognize spelling mistakes

I was looking for a tweak to the cd command so that it recognizes spelling mistakes of directories and auto complete similar directory names. Right now, I have settings that recognize the spelling mistakes of directory but does not auto complete…
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Ruby on Rails find_by case insensitive

I need to find a record from 2 parameters but I need one of them to be case insensitive. The current case sensitive line is c = Course.find_by(subject_area: area, cat_number: cat) But I need subject_area to be case insensitive. How would I…
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How to change the collation of sqlite3 database to sort case insensitively?

I have a query for sqlite3 database which provides the sorted data. The data are sorted on the basis of a column which is a varchar column "Name". Now when I do the query select * from tableNames Order by Name; It provides the data like this. …
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Case-insensitive Lua pattern-matching

I'm writing a grep utility in Lua for our mobile devices running Windows CE 6/7, but I've run into some issues implementing case-insensitive match patterns. The obvious solution of converting everything to uppercase (or lower) does not work so…
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Case Insensitive Pattern Matching over String Lists

I'm trying to parse command line arguments in an F# application. I'm using pattern matching over parameters list to accomplish it. Something like: let rec parseCmdLnArgs = function | [] -> { OutputFile = None ; OtherParam = None } | "/out" ::…
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SOLR Case Insensitive Search

I've a problem in SOLR Search. I have a data like this: I use solr admin to find this data using query like this: address_s:*Nadi* and found those data. But when I use this query: address_s:*nadi* it doesn't found anything.I've googling and I…
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How to use iLike operator with Sequelize to make case insensitive queries

I am using Sequelize along with PostgreSQL in managing my database. I would like to perform a case insensitive search query. When I googled it up, some people said that I can use "iLike" operator to do so. I tried to implement this way: var…
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Win32 File Name Comparison

Does anyone know what culture settings Win32 uses when dealing with case-insensitive files names? Is this something that varies based on the user's culture, or are the casing rules that Win32 uses culture invariant?
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Is there an efficient way to do a case-insensitive JavaScript object property name lookup?

There is a certain object I have where the exact case of the properties is not known ahead of time. For example, a property name might be "AbC" or "Abc" or "abc", etc. I do, however, know that only one exists. That is I know there can't be both a…
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What is the purpose of case sensitivity in languages?

Possible Duplicates: Is there any advantage of being a case-sensitive programming language? Why are many languages case sensitive? Something I have always wondered, is why are languages designed to be case sensitive? My pea brain can't fathom any…
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Case insensitive matching in Java switch-case statement

I was wondering if there is a way to perform case insensitive match in java switch case statement. the default implementation is case sensitive. Please see the example below. public class SwitchCaseTest { /** * @param args */ …
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Assuming Unicode and case-insensitivity, should the pattern ".." match "FfIsS"?

It sounds like a joke, but I can sort of prove it. Assumptions: Dot matches any single character. A case-insensitive pattern matches s if and only if it matches s.toUpperCase(). All of the following is pretty logical and holds in…
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.NET How to compare two Strings that represent filenames ignoring case correctly

Given that (at least on NTFS) the filesystem on Windows is case insensitive, I would like to compare String fileA to String fileB as such: fileA.Equals(fileB, StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase) The question then becomes which culture I…
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How would I make Apache case insensitive using .htaccess?

I recently switched from IIS to Apache and unfortionately some of my links have capitalization issues. I have seen quite a few people talking about how to rewrite urls to be all lowercase or all uppercase but I need something to just make Apache…
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