[Gambas-user] Hi and case-insensitive text searches?

[Eckhart Wörner]

Hi,

Am Sonntag, 2. Januar 2005 12:17 schrieb Paul Renhard:
> Now, my first problem is that I'm doing a simple text search using
> Instr(). This works fine but is case
> sensitive, I would like to do a case-insensitve search! Is there an easy
> way of doing this or am I going to have to code a little loop that takes
> each character of the search string and converts its case for searching?

the easiest way is to convert both strings to lower case and then compare 
them:

PRINT Instr(Lower("This is the string you are searching in"), Lower("String"))
' Returns 13

Eckhart
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