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Re: Select Case and case-sensitive strings?

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Subject: Re: Select Case and case-sensitive strings?
From: Keith DeLong <lists@redcort.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:33:00 -0700
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> Hi Folks,
> 
> Is Select Case support to ignore case with comparing strings?  I'm
> trying to process args() and I'm duplicating an existing Unix tools
> that's unavailable on OS X and the source is long ago lost.  However,
> the original app had different meanings for different case - i.e.: -s
> meant one thing while -S meant something else.
> 
> Did my nice clean Select Case just become a huge nested If - ElseIf -
> End If block using StrComp in binary mode?
> 
> Tim

Select Case is case insensitive. Would Asc() Chr() keep things simple?

i.e.

Select Case Asc( argumentVar )

Case Chr(s)

Case Chr(S)

....

End Select


Keith DeLong



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