Case Insensitive string comparison

[anonieko]

Is this a long way to compare strings ignoring the case?
if ( string.Compare(wsUri.Host, "localHost",
System.StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) == 0 )
{
// etc.
}

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

<an******@hotmail.comwrote:

Is this a long way to compare strings ignoring the case?
if ( string.Compare(wsUri.Host, "localHost",
System.StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) == 0 )
{
// etc.
}

Well, it's easier to use

if ("localHost".Equals(wsUri.Host, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))

(If you know that wsUri.Host is non-null, you can swap what the method
is called on for clarity.)

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[Laura T.]

Well it's long, but just as number of characters.
A shorter version could be string.Compare(wsUri.Host, "localHost",true)==0
It still takes three parameters.

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Is this a long way to compare strings ignoring the case?
if ( string.Compare(wsUri.Host, "localHost",
System.StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) == 0 )
{
// etc.
}

[shashank kadge]

On Mar 2, 1:11 pm, "Laura T." <[e-mail]:

Well it's long, but just as number of characters.
A shorter version could be string.Compare(wsUri.Host, "localHost",true)==0
It still takes three parameters.

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Is this a long way to compare strings ignoring the case?

if ( string.Compare(wsUri.Host, "localHost",
System.StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) == 0 )
{
// etc.
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wsUri.Host.ToString().ToUpper().Equals("LOCALHOST" ) would be much
simpler i think

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shashank kadge

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

On Mar 6, 3:40 pm, "shashank kadge" <[e-mail]:

>
wsUri.Host.ToString().ToUpper().Equals("LOCALHOST" ) would be much
simpler i think

It's not guaranteed to work though, due to potential culture issues.

I ran into a problem years ago where I was trying to compare strings
in a case-insensitive way by doing the above - and we found that in
Turkey, we had a problem, because the upper case of "i" isn't "I" in
Turkey (and vice versa).

Using a case-insensitive comparison is the best way of working.

Jon

[shashank kadge]

On Mar 6, 11:49 am, "Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <[e-mail]:

On Mar 6, 3:40 pm, "shashank kadge" <[e-mail]:

wsUri.Host.ToString().ToUpper().Equals("LOCALHOST" ) would be much
simpler i think

It's not guaranteed to work though, due to potential culture issues.

I ran into a problem years ago where I was trying to compare strings
in a case-insensitive way by doing the above - and we found that in
Turkey, we had a problem, because the upper case of "i" isn't "I" in
Turkey (and vice versa).

Using a case-insensitive comparison is the best way of working.

Jon

Got u Jon. thanks.

-
shashank kadge

[Kevin Spencer]

A nice shorthand overload is:

String.Compare(wsUri.Host, "localHost", true) == 0 ...

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On Mar 6, 3:40 pm, "shashank kadge" <[e-mail]:

>>
wsUri.Host.ToString().ToUpper().Equals("LOCALHOST ") would be much
simpler i think

It's not guaranteed to work though, due to potential culture issues.

I ran into a problem years ago where I was trying to compare strings
in a case-insensitive way by doing the above - and we found that in
Turkey, we had a problem, because the upper case of "i" isn't "I" in
Turkey (and vice versa).

Using a case-insensitive comparison is the best way of working.

Jon