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An operation is case sensitive when uppercase and lowercase characters are treated differently.

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How do I commit case-sensitive only filename changes in Git?

I have changed a few files name by de-capitalize the first letter, as in Name.jpg to name.jpg. Git does not recognize this changes and I had to delete the files and upload them again. Is there a way that Git can be case-sensitive when checking for…
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Changing capitalization of filenames in Git

I am trying to rename a file to have different capitalization from what it had before: git mv src/collision/b2AABB.js src/collision/B2AABB.js fatal: destination exists, source=src/collision/b2AABB.js, destination=src/collision/B2AABB.js As you can…
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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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Should URL be case sensitive?

I noticed that HTTP://STACKOVERFLOW.COM/QUESTIONS/ASK and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask both works fine - actually the previous one is converted to lowercase. I think that this makes sense for the user. If I look at Google then this URL…
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How can I make SQL case sensitive string comparison on MySQL?

I have a function that returns five characters with mixed case. If I do a query on this string it will return the value regardless of case. How can I make MySQL string queries case sensitive?
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git mv and only change case of directory

While I found similar question I didn't find an answer to my problem When I try to rename the directory from FOO to foo via git mv FOO foo I get fatal: renaming 'FOO' failed: Invalid argument OK. So I try git mv FOO foo2 && git mv foo2 foo But…
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How can I convert uppercase letters to lowercase in Notepad++

I use Notepad ++ for coding mostly. How can I convert capital letters to lowercase and vice versa?
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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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Is SQL syntax case sensitive?

Is SQL case sensitive. I've used MySQL and SQL Server which both seem to be case in-sensitive. Is this always the case? Does the standard define case-sensitivity?
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MySQL case sensitive query

This has been asked on this site before but I couldn't find a sufficient answer. If I'm doing a query like: Select Seller from Table where Location = 'San Jose' How can I make it return only Sellers with Location 'San Jose' instead of 'san jose' or…
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Are table names in MySQL case sensitive?

Are table names in MySQL case sensitive? On my Windows development machine the code I have is able to query my tables which appear to be all lowercase. When I deploy to the test server in our datacenter the table names appear to start with an…
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Are PostgreSQL column names case-sensitive?

I have a db table say, persons in Postgres handed down by another team that has a column name say, "first_Name". Now am trying to use PG commander to query this table on this column-name. select * from persons where first_Name="xyz"; And it just…
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Is Java RegEx case-insensitive?

In Java, when doing a replaceAll to look for a regex pattern like: replaceAll("\\?i\\b(\\w+)\\b(\\s+\\1)+\\b", "$1"); (to remove duplicate consecutive case-insensitive words, e.g. Test test), I'm not sure where I put the ?i. I read that it is…
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Case conventions on element names?

Are there any formal recommendations on element casing in XML? I know XHTML uses lowercase element names (as opposed to HTML which canonically uses uppercase but is case-insensitive.) But I'm talking about XML for generic…
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