Re: Select Case and case-sensitive strings?

[Joe Strout <joe@inspiringapps.com>]

On Jul 31, 2008, at 1:57 PM, Karen wrote:

> If you have to parse the comand line into one character arguments  
> you could then use Asc with select case.
> If not mabe settingthe string encoding to NIl MIGHT get you a case  
> insesitive comparison. I have not tried it ... but logically it  
> might as no ecoding could (should?) mean RB treats the string as  
> bytes.
No, it won't.  String comparison is a text operation, so if you give  
it a nil-encoded string, RB will shrug and take a wild guess as to  
what encoding it might actually be.  To do a bytewise comparison,  
you'd have to use StrComp.
Best,
- Joe

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Joe Strout
Inspiring Applications, Inc.
http://www.InspiringApps.com




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