An operation is case insensitive when uppercase and lowercase characters are equally treated.
Questions tagged [case-insensitive]
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Case insensitive 'Contains(string)'
Is there a way to make the following return true?
string title = "ASTRINGTOTEST";
title.Contains("string");
There doesn't seem to be an overload that allows me to set the case sensitivity.. Currently I UPPERCASE them both, but that's just silly (by…
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How to do case insensitive search in Vim
I'd like to search for an upper case word, for example COPYRIGHT in a file. I tried performing a search like:
/copyright/i # Doesn't work
but it doesn't work. I know that in Perl, if I give the i flag into a regex it will turn the regex into a…
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How do I do a case-insensitive string comparison?
How can I do case insensitive string comparison in Python?
I would like to encapsulate comparison of a regular strings to a repository string using in a very simple and Pythonic way. I also would like to have ability to look up values in a dict…
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Contains case insensitive
I have the following:
if (referrer.indexOf("Ral") == -1) { ... }
What I like to do is to make Ral case insensitive, so that it can be RAl, rAl, etc. and still match.
Is there a way to say that Ral has to be case-insensitive?
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Case insensitive regular expression without re.compile?
In Python, I can compile a regular expression to be case-insensitive using re.compile:
>>> s = 'TeSt'
>>> casesensitive = re.compile('test')
>>> ignorecase = re.compile('test', re.IGNORECASE)
>>>
>>> print casesensitive.match(s)
None
>>> print…
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MongoDB: Is it possible to make a case-insensitive query?
Example:
> db.stuff.save({"foo":"bar"});
> db.stuff.find({"foo":"bar"}).count();
1
> db.stuff.find({"foo":"BAR"}).count();
0
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How to set Sqlite3 to be case insensitive when string comparing?
I want to select records from sqlite3 database by string matching. But if I use '=' in the where clause, I found that sqlite3 is case sensitive. Can anyone tell me how to use string comparing case-insensitive?
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How can I search (case-insensitive) in a column using LIKE wildcard?
I looked around some and didn't find what I was after so here goes.
SELECT * FROM trees WHERE trees.`title` LIKE '%elm%'
This works fine, but not if the tree is named Elm or ELM etc...
How do I make SQL case insensitive for this wild-card…
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How do you do a case insensitive search using a pattern modifier using less?
It seems like the only way to do this is to pass the -i parameter in when you initially run less. Does anyone know of some secret hack to make something like this work
/something to search for/i
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Case-insensitive search
I'm trying to get a case-insensitive search with two strings in JavaScript working.
Normally it would be like this:
var string="Stackoverflow is the BEST";
var result= string.search(/best/i);
alert(result);
The /i flag would be for…
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How to perform case-insensitive sorting in JavaScript?
I have an array of strings I need to sort in JavaScript, but in a case-insensitive way. How to perform this?
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Case insensitive searching in Oracle
The default behaviour of LIKE and the other comparison operators, = etc is case-sensitive.
Is it possible make them case-insensitive?
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How can I do a case insensitive string comparison?
How can I make the line below case insensitive?
drUser["Enrolled"] =
(enrolledUsers.FindIndex(x => x.Username == (string)drUser["Username"]) != -1);
I was given some advice earlier today that suggested I use:…
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Case-insensitive search in Rails model
My product model contains some items
Product.first
=> #
I'm now importing some product parameters from another dataset, but there are inconsistencies in the spelling of the names. For instance, in the other…
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Case insensitive replace
What's the easiest way to do a case-insensitive string replacement in Python?
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