[Lazarus] Easiest way to "case" strings

Alexander Klenin klenin at gmail.com
Sat Mar 21 17:27:03 CET 2009


2009/3/22 Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org>:
> Even so, there are some serious issues with a string 'case' as a language construct:
> - What about encodings ?

Nothing about them, just compare byte-by-byte, as usual string comparison do.

> - Should it be case sensitive or not ?

Of course no.

> I don't think that these can be solved in a satisfying manner on a language level.

Generally, I feel that FPC is a bit too conservative. I understand
that a healthy dose if
skepticism is a good thing for language design, but IMHO it was taken
too far lately.

-- 
Alexander S. Klenin



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