Is sorting case sensitive?

Sorting on the basis of the ASCII values differentiates the uppercase letters from the lowercase letters, and results in a case-sensitive order . Although the results in the Ascending order column might at first appear somewhat unpredictable, they are not.

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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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Why use localeCompare?

localeCompare() allows for the fact that you may want to ignore certain differences in the strings (such as puncutation or diacriticals or case) and still allow them to compare the same or you want to ignore certain differences when deciding which string is before the other.

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