Making the -match operator case sensitve

[john.william...@gmail.com]

Hi all.

When I use the "match" operator to compare to strings in the following
manner, the comparison is case insensitive:

"hello" -matches "HELLO"

The above evaluates to true. How can I make this comparison case
SENSITIVE?

Thanks in advance,
John

[Jeff]

John,

I assume you meant to write '-match' rather than '-matches'. All of
the comparison operators have case sensitive and case insensitive
variants:

PSH$ "hello" -match "HELLO"
True
PSH$ "hello" -cmatch "HELLO"
False
PSH$ "hello" -imatch "HELLO"
True

The match is case insensitive by default, so '-match' is the same as '-
imatch'; '-imatch' is there so code that depends on case insensitivity
can be as clear as possible.

See 'help about_operator' for more information.

Jeff

[Shay Levi]

To force case-sensitive match ("c.." stands for case-sensitive):

PS > "hello" -cmatch "HELLO"
False

There is also -imatch for case-insensitive, which is the default behaviour.

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