Which values can be case-sensitive?

Text or typed input that is sensitive to capitalization of letters . For example, “Computer” and “computer” are two different words because the “C” is uppercase in the first example and lowercase in the second example. On modern systems, passwords are case-sensitive, and usernames are usually case-sensitive as well.

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How do I use ignore case?

You ignore case when you treat the data, not when you retrieve/store it . If you want to store everything in lowercase use String#toLowerCase, in uppercase use String#toUpperCase. Then when you have to actually treat it, you may use out of the bow methods, like String#equalsIgnoreCase(java.

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