From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-02-12T06:29:57+09:00
Subject: Re: non case sensitive searching

On 11.02.2008 22:19, Adam Akhtar wrote:
> If i want to see if a list contains a particular word how would i go
> about doing so with letter case not being important. Normally two words
> spelt the same are not equal if they differ in case.
> 
> i.e. Shell != shell
> or   ShEll != shell
> 
> At first i thought simply conveting both the list and the word to search
> into uppercase thus making them the same but doing so would not be very
> efficient if the list is very big.

search_key = something.downcase
list.find {|s| s.downcase == search_key}

	robert