Hi all,
This is one of those annoying ones, but simple to solve I would imagine.
I have a word list, where each entry is on a single line and in
lowercase. I process this text file reading each word
words.each |word|
etc etc
I then have a conditional statement to check if a value matches word eg
if foo == word
puts foo
end
This all works well, but I am stuck on how to deal with upper and
lowercase. I want to check if foo is equal to word in lowercase and in
uppercase.
What is the best way to do this?
Many thanks
Stuart
Thanks for a quick reply. I had tried the first one but it didn’t work.
Did not think of the second one, silly me.
Thanks a lot
badboy wrote:
Stuart C. schrieb:
I then have a conditional statement to check if a value matches word eg
Many thanks
Stuart
you can use regexes and the “i”-flag:
foo =~ /^yourword$/i
(or better /\Ayourword\Z/i if you’re not sure if there are newlines in
it)
or lowercase foo:
foo.downcase == “yourword”

On May 21, 2009, at 7:54 AM, Stuart C. wrote:
word eg
foo.downcase == “yourword”

–
Or just:
yourword.casecmp(foo).zero?
See String#casecmp for more.
-Rob
Rob B. http://agileconsultingllc.com
[email protected]