IgnoreCase

IgnoreCase

is an option for string manipulation and searching functions that specifies whether lowercase and uppercase letters should be treated as equivalent.

Details

  • With the default setting IgnoreCase->False, lowercase and uppercase letters are treated as totally different.
  • With the setting IgnoreCase->True, lowercase and uppercase letters are treated as equivalent.
  • IgnoreCase is an option for many string, file, and symbol name functions.
  • IgnoreCase in no way affects the parsing of Wolfram Language expressions.

Examples

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Basic Examples  (1)

With IgnoreCase->True, lowercase and uppercase letters are treated as equivalent:

Use IgnoreCase->False to treat lowercase and uppercase letters as distinct letters:

Scope  (5)

IgnoreCase is set to False by default:

Find positions of successive identical characters independent of case:

This replaces all occurrences regardless of case:

Determine alphabetic order independent of case:

With IgnoreCase->True, WordFrequency will count all case variations to compute the frequency:

Wolfram Research (1991), IgnoreCase, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/IgnoreCase.html.

Text

Wolfram Research (1991), IgnoreCase, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/IgnoreCase.html.

CMS

Wolfram Language. 1991. "IgnoreCase." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/IgnoreCase.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (1991). IgnoreCase. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/IgnoreCase.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2024_ignorecase, author="Wolfram Research", title="{IgnoreCase}", year="1991", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/IgnoreCase.html}", note=[Accessed: 21-December-2024 ]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2024_ignorecase, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={IgnoreCase}, year={1991}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/IgnoreCase.html}, note=[Accessed: 21-December-2024 ]}