{"id":127383,"date":"2022-08-19T16:21:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T16:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.finxter.com\/?p=580690"},"modified":"2022-08-19T16:21:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T16:21:16","slug":"how-to-ignore-case-in-strings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/08\/19\/how-to-ignore-case-in-strings\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Ignore Case in Strings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Problem Formulation and Solution Overview<\/h2>\n

In this article, you’ll learn how to ignore (upper\/lower\/title) case characters when dealing with Strings in Python.<\/p>\n

The main reason for ignoring the case of a String is to perform accurate String comparisons or to return accurate search results.<\/em><\/p>\n

For example, the following three (3) Strings are not identical. If compared with each other, they would return False.<\/em><\/p>\n

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This is because each character in the ASCII Table<\/a> assigns different numeric values for each key or key combination on the keyboard.<\/em><\/p>\n

This article outlines various ways to ignore the case of Strings.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\ud83d\udcac\" Question<\/strong>: How would we write code to compare Strings?<\/em><\/p>\n

We can accomplish this task by one of the following options:<\/p>\n