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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.cygnus.argh.org>
Subject: Re: Case Sensitivity
Date: 2000/05/11
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"Cameron McShane" <cazza@aceonline.com.au> writes:

> We need a menu that needs to be case-'in'sensitive. I am using an enumerated
> data type for the 3 menu options ie:
> 
>     type Menu_Options is (buy, read, done)
> 
> If the user is to be allowed to enter Buy or BUY or bUy - etc, do I need to
> make the data type
> 
>     type Menu_Options is (buy, Buy, bUY, etc
> 
> or is there a way of converting user input to all lower case?

If you use Menu_Options'Value to convert a string to the corresponding
enumeration value, you don't have to care about case at all.  Or am I
missing something?