From: Rob Biedenharn <Rob@...>
Date: 2009-05-21T22:45:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Case sensitive strings

On May 21, 2009, at 7:54 AM, Stuart Clarke wrote:
> 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"
>>
>> ;)
>
> -- 

Or just:

  yourword.casecmp(foo).zero?

See String#casecmp for more.

-Rob

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