From: Mike Stok <mike@...>
Date: 2002-08-26T11:45:44+09:00
Subject: Re: case-insensitive string compare?

In article <3d6976a1_4@corp.newsgroups.com>, Russ Freeman wrote:
> Hi folks, can't seem to find a straight answer to this.
> 
> I expected to find something like "String.compareNoCase" with no luck.  I'm
> assuming I don't need to use either downcase explicitly or that horrid
> global, $=, to achive the same result ?

Have you tried a trailing i?

irb(main):001:0> 'Ruby' =~ /^ruby$/i
0
irb(main):002:0> 'Ruby' =~ /^ruby$/
nil

If you want to be more verbose then look at
http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ref_c_regexp.html#Regexp.new e.g.

irb(main):003:0> 'Ruby' =~ Regexp.new('ruby', Regexp::IGNORECASE)
0

Hope this helps,

Mike

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