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From: Gautier <gautier.demontmollin@maths.unine.ch>
Subject: Re: Desirability of C++
Date: 2000/05/05
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Paul Graham:

> [...] You can also write:
> 
>     if (StrIEqual(name1, name2)) {
>         ...

> for case-insensitive comparisons.  How do you compare strings
> case-insensitively in Ada?  By writing a routine like StrIEqual, in
> which case you lose the notational ease of '='.

In a non time-critical part, you can use the following solution:

  if To_upper(name1) = To_upper(name2) then ...

- To_upper from Ada.Characters_handling (+/- correct spelled)

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