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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: string comparisions ignoring case?
Message-ID: <9842@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 6 Oct 90 03:51:43 GMT
References: <21932@fs2.NISC.SRI.COM>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <21932@fs2.NISC.SRI.COM> cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson [Animal]) writes:
: 
: Any way to do string comparisions that ignore case gracefully?  The
: only solution I can think of at the moment involves using some 
: temporary variables... ick.   Howbout something like '$foo eqi $bar' ?

If your $bar contains only alpha characters, you can just say

	$foo =~ /^$bar$/i;

Larry