| case sensitivity Whether a text matching operation distinguishes upper- (capital) letters from lower case (is "case sensitive") or not ("case insensitive"). Case in file names should be preserved (for readability) but ignored when matching (so the user doesn't have to get it right). does not preserve case in file names, preserves case and matches are case sensitive. Any decent will allow the user to specify whether or not text searches should be . Case sensitivity is also relevant in programming (most programming languages distiguish between case in the names of ), and addressing ( are case insensitive but local names are case sensitive). Case insensitive operations are sometimes said to "fold case", from the idea of folding the character code table so that upper and lower case letters coincide. The alternative "smash case" is more likely to be used by someone who considers this behaviour a or in cases where one case is actually permanently converted to the other. " will automatically smash case in the names of all the files you create". (1997-07-09) |
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