From: MikkelFJ <mikkelfj-anti-spam@...>
Date: 2002-09-23T23:39:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Checking hash key's and values, with case insensitivity


"Philipp Meier" <meier@meisterbohne.de> wrote in message
news:20020920191041.GF1528@o-matic.net...
> The way to deal with this is to create a hashtable that is indexed by
> normalized keys i.e. all uppercase or all lowercase characters. Upon
lookup
> you map the search key the same way. The actual hash lookup is still case
> sensitive. You may then store the original key as a value and you may also
> want to maintain two hashes - one with the original keys and one with the
> normalized keys.

And do what if you have two keys in the original hash if they are equal
when ignoring the case?

I wasn't thinking clearly that day. You should choose either case sensitive
or insensitive.

Mikkel