From: Stuart Clarke <stuart.clarke1986@...>
Date: 2009-05-21T20:54:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Case sensitive strings

Thanks for a quick reply. I had tried the first one but it didn't work.

Did not think of the second one, silly me.

Thanks a lot

badboy wrote:
> Stuart Clarke schrieb:
>> I then have a conditional statement to check if a value matches word eg
>> 
>> Many thanks
>> 
>> Stuart
> you can use regexes and the "i"-flag:
>    foo =~ /^yourword$/i
>   (or better /\Ayourword\Z/i if you're not sure if there are newlines in 
> it)
> or lowercase foo:
>    foo.downcase == "yourword"
> 
> ;)

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