03-26-2010
Case insensitive comparison of strings
Hi All,
In one shell script I have
In variable "i" I am getting a full path of a file. Now I want to compare something like
-- upper(*Nav*))
I dont want to do like below because in each CASE statement I doing so many operations.
Quote:
case "$i" in
*Nav*)
;;
*NAV*)
Please guide me.
Thanks in advance
Vishalaksha
Last edited by vishalaksha; 03-26-2010 at 01:37 AM..
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hash::case::upper
Hash::Case::Upper(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Hash::Case::Upper(3pm)
NAME
Hash::Case::Upper - native hash with enforced lower cased keys
INHERITANCE
Hash::Case::Upper
is a Hash::Case
is a Tie::StdHash
SYNOPSIS
use Hash::Case::Upper;
tie my(%uchash), 'Hash::Case::Upper';
$uchash{StraNGeKeY} = 3;
print keys %uchash; # STRANGEKEY
DESCRIPTION
Hash::Case::Upper extends Hash::Case, which lets you play various trics with hash keys. In this implementation, the fake hash is case
insensitive and the keys stored in upper-case.
METHODS
Constructors
$obj->addHashData(HASH)
See "Constructors" in Hash::Case
$obj->addPairs(PAIRS)
See "Constructors" in Hash::Case
$obj->setHash(HASH)
See "Constructors" in Hash::Case
tie(HASH, 'Hash::Case::Upper', [VALUES,] OPTIONS)
Define HASH to have only upper cased keys. The hash is initialized with the VALUES, specified as ref-array or ref-hash. Currently,
there are no OPTIONS defined.
SEE ALSO
This module is part of Hash-Case distribution version 1.02, built on March 09, 2012. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/hash-case/
LICENSE
Copyrights 2002-2003,2007-2012 by Mark Overmeer. For other contributors see ChangeLog.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See
http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html
perl v5.14.2 2012-03-09 Hash::Case::Upper(3pm)