How to ignore case when comparing 2 strings??

[Steve K]

Hi all,

I have done a bit of looking, but can't seem to find a way
to easily tell VBS to ignore the case of a string. For
example

I am comparing user defined strings with database records
and looking for a match. So if the DB record has 'Car' and
the user enters 'car' it will fail. My code for this looks
like this:

if U(1) = UserString then
'stuff

Where U(1) is a field in a record and UserString is the
value that the user supplied.

I am hoping to find a tool like this:
if U(1) = IgnoreCase(UserString) then
'stuff

Is there such a function? Sorry if this is obvious,
everything I found dealt with the RegExp object and I
don't want to use that for such a simple task.

Thanks in advance!

Steve

[Michael Harris]

Just normalize the case

if ucase(strA) = ucase(strB) then
...

or use the StrComp() function...

StrComp Function
http://msdn.microsoft.com/scripting/vbscript/doc/vsfctStrComp.htm

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[Steve Klett]

Michael, thanks!

I was being lazy, if I had given it erious thought I would have thought to normalize. Thanks again and sorry for asking such a simple question, this is a good resource so I don't want to get marked as one of those guys that comes along and asks really dumb questions. ;)

Everything works great now-

Steve

PS> Have a good weekend

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[Paul Scott]

Steve,
instead of ignoring case you could set it all to upper case.
e.g.

if UCase(U(1)) = UCase(UserString )

Paul

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