How do you ignore a 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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What is case insensitive search?

A case-insensitive search is more comprehensive, finding “Language” (at the beginning of a sentence), “language”, and “LANGUAGE” (in a title in capitals ); a case-sensitive search will find the computer language “BASIC” but exclude most of the many unwanted instances of the word.

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