Questions tagged [case-insensitive]

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

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Case Sensitivity Kotlin / ignoreCase

I am trying to ignore case sensitivity on a string. For example, a user can put "Brazil" or "brasil" and the fun will trigger. How do I implement this? I am new to Kotlin. fun questionFour() { val edittextCountry =…
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iTerm2 trigger case insensitive

Recently I discovered iTerm2's wonderful feature: triggers. Now I want iTerm to highlight some pieces of text, for exampeo error, fatal, etc. I want those triggers to be case-insensitive, but I'm having a hard time setting up these triggers.…
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In bash, can the file operator (-f) be case-insensitive?

I'm doing the following: if [ -f $FILE ] ; then echo "File exists" fi But I want the -f to be case-insensitive. That is, if FILE is /etc/somefile, I want -f to recognize /Etc/SomeFile. I can partially work around it with glob: shopt -s…
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case insensitive LDAP searches

What is the syntax for performing a case-insensitive match on a uid attribute? If attribute definition matters then how would that be changed? In particular I am using ApacheDS for my LDAP store.
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Collection removeAll ignoring case?

Ok so here is my issue. I have to HashSet's, I use the removeAll method to delete values that exist in one set from the other. Prior to calling the method, I obviously add the values to the Sets. I call .toUpperCase() on each String before adding…
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Can SVN handle case sensitivity issues?

Is there a way to force SVN to be case insensitive? We have an issue where a user commits from a linux environment with files say "file.ext" and "File.ext". Works just fine. The problem, however, is when a user on a MAC OSX or Windows attempts an…
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How to transform to lowercase a value in SQLite?

In the SQLite database, I have stored all values in uppercase. How can I select the specified value in the database using lower case?
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C# Comparing strings with different case

I'm reading a username and then checking to see if exists in another database table, the problem is whilst the username is the same the case maybe different and is preventing it from finding a match example jsmith and JSmith or JSMITH. How can I fix…
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javascript: ignoring case sensitivity of strings

In JavaScript, I'm trying using the user's input to search my database. For example, user input is "monster", and my database's data is "Monster". How can I have it match regardless of it's casing?
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Rails Routes - How to make them case insensitive?

Routes in Ruby on Rails are case sensitive. It seems someone brought this up before, and it has been labeled will not fix. http://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/393-routes-are-case-sensitive That strikes me as unfortunate, as I don't…
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LINQ to DataSet case insensitive group by

I have a data table and I want to perform a case insensitive group by over a column of data table (say Column1 of type string). I observed that normally LINQ to DataSet performs a case sensitive comparison. For example, if Column1 has two string…
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PHP case-insensitive explode()

I have the following code: explode("delimiter", $snippet); But I want that my delimiter is case-insensitive.
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Difference of stricmp and _stricmp in Visual Studio?

I may asking a stupid question, but I really can't find an answer with google plus I am still a beginner of using MSVS. I recently need to use functions to make comparison of two strings. What I don't understand is the difference of stricmp and…
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Storing a case insensitive varchar in PostgreSQL

I want to add some constraint to my username varchar in the SQL table so that if a username exists, a duplicate username in a different case cannot be created. How can I do this? Thanks Edit: I am using PostgreSQL, a little syntax help will be…
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How to make a CaseInsensitiveConcurrentMap?

How can I implement class CaseInsensitiveConcurrentMap implements ConcurrentMap which works just like ConcurrentHashMap except that the keys are compared case-insensitively? The keys should not be converted to lowercase…
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