An operation is case sensitive when uppercase and lowercase characters are treated differently.
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Is VB really case insensitive?
I'm not trying to start an argument here, but for whatever reason, it's typically stated that Visual Basic is case insensitive and C languages aren't (and somehow that is a good thing).
But here's my question: Where exactly is Visual Basic case…
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Is XML case-sensitive?
Short question
Is XML case-sensitive?
Longer question
For example:
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Case sensitivity in Git
I've run into a problem with git. Basically I set to false core.ignorecase because I wanted to change the case of the names of some folders (since I'm under OSX with a case-insensitive filesystem, the changes weren't shown otherwise). When I pulled…
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Is git not case sensitive?
In the first commitment of my partial called _Electronics it was written beginning with a capital letters, then I changed it to _electronics.
Git under cygwin ignored the case after commiting the new name, so I changed the name by hand in the target…
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How do you force mysql LIKE to be case sensitive?
Possible Duplicate:
Mysql Like Case Sensitive
Mysql ignores case for its LIKE comparisons.
How can you force it to perform case-sensitive LIKE comparisons?
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Are PHP functions case sensitive?
I was digging through some code, and I found some calls to mySQL_fetch_array. Is PHP case sensitive about function names? I recall reading this somewhere but can't seem to find any reference to it.
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How do I make jQuery Contains case insensitive, including jQuery 1.8+?
I'm trying to use "contains" case insensitively. I tried using the solution at the following stackoverflow question, but it didn't work:
Is there a case insensitive jQuery :contains selector?
For convenience, the solution is copied…
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indexOf Case Sensitive?
Is the indexOf(String) method case sensitive? If so, is there a case insensitive version of it?
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Windows batch command to ignore case sensitivity in variables
I have a set of variables I allow some people I work with to edit. These are True (T) and False (F) values, but I have some people that insist on putting t and f instead of the upper case values respectively.
I use the following workaround code to…
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Are column and table name case sensitive in MySQL?
If I have a column names called category_id and Category_Id, are they different?
And if I have table called category and Category, are they different?
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SQL unique varchar case sensitivity question
I'm trying to populate a SQL table with a list of words. The table itself it pretty simple:
CREATE TABLE WORDS(
ID BIGINT AUTO_INCREMENT,
WORD VARCHAR(128) NOT NULL UNIQUE,
PRIMARY KEY(ID)
);
The problem I'm running into is this: when I do…
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GitHub: How to do case sensitive search for the code in repository?
I want to do a case sensitive search for a particular piece of code in a GitHub repository. Is it possible?
I checked https://help.github.com/articles/searching-code/ and didn't find such a syntax rule.
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SQL Server check case-sensitivity?
How can I check to see if a database in SQL Server is case-sensitive? I have previously been running the query:
SELECT CASE WHEN 'A' = 'a' THEN 'NOT CASE SENSITIVE' ELSE 'CASE SENSITIVE' END
But I am looking for other ways as this has actually…
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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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Case sensitive and insensitive like in SQLite
In SQLite it is possible to change the case sensitive behaviour of 'LIKE' by using the commands:
PRAGMA case_sensitive_like=ON;
PRAGMA case_sensitive_like=OFF;
However in my situation I would like to execute a query, part of which is case sensitive…
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