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Posted By: Akbur_Ghafoor
Posted On: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 05:02 AM

Hi folks,

Anyone know how I can make a comparison between two fields that consist of a String but ignore the case?

i.e,
var myVar = "HeLLo";

var myVar2 = "hello";

(myVar == myVar2) should equal true.

A method which does this job exists in Java language (equalsIgnoreCase) but I am not aware of one in JavaScript. Any one know?

Thanks,

Akbur

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Re: How can I test for equality but ignore case.

Posted By: AlessandroA_Garbagnati
Posted On: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 11:41 AM

Hi,

If you need the javascript equivalent of euqalsIgnoreCase(), you can compare the loverCase or upperCase version of the string:

var myVar1 = "HeLLo";

var myVar2 = "hello";

(myVar1.toUpperCase() == myVar2.toUpperCase()) is true.

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