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Old 03-27-2012
Not usually, no.
# 9  
Old 03-27-2012
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Originally Posted by cue
Not usually, no.
You mean options are case sensitive?
For example, having the option, --Jpoly, if the user writes --jPoly, the script should return an error?

Are there any standard options where the option case does not matter?
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Old 03-27-2012
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Originally Posted by kristinu
You mean options are case sensitive?
Yes they are case sensitive.
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Originally Posted by kristinu
For example, having the option, --Jpoly, if the user writes --jPoly, the script should return an error?
Yes it should return an error and this is rooted in the unix philosophy that the case of characters is significant.
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Originally Posted by kristinu
Are there any standard options where the option case does not matter?
None that I have ever come across in the unix world...or linux for that matter.
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