Re: How to check a String contains another String, case-insensitively?
Tom Anderson wrote:
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Lew wrote:
toUpperCase() and toLowerCase() are not reciprocal. In other words,
it is not necessarily true that for a String 'foo' with all lower-case
characters that:
foo.toUpperCase().toLowerCase().equals( foo )
I assume this is to do with the rules in some weird writing systems (ie
any that aren't the ones i know!). Could you expand at all on exactly
when the equality you give might not hold?
<sscce source="testit/CaserA.java">
/** CaserA.java
*/
package testit;
/** CaserA - shows weirdness in upper-lower case handling.
*/
public class CaserA
{
/** Main.
* @param args <code>String []</code> command line arguments
*/
public static void main( String [] args )
{
System.out.print("\"bei??en\".equalsIgnoreCase( \"BEISSEN\" ): ");
System.out.println( "bei??en".equalsIgnoreCase( "BEISSEN" ));
System.out.print( "\"bei??en\".toUpperCase().equals( \"BEISSEN\" ): " );
System.out.println("bei??en".toUpperCase().equals( "BEISSEN" ));
System.out.print(
"\"bei??en\".toUpperCase().toLowerCase().equals( \"bei??en\" ): ");
System.out.println(
"bei??en".toUpperCase().toLowerCase().equals( "bei??en" ));
}
}
</sscce>
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