Re: Case insensitive file open in Perl

On Nov 2, 2009, at 7:50 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote:

> Maybe I'm just braindead tonight (likely as it seems as though I've  
> not
> adjusted to the time change yet).
>
> I'm working on a program that will load a user supplied file.  Since
> the file will be downloaded from the Web, it's possible that it will  
> be
> all upper case, all lower, or a mixture.  Nice, huh?
>
> I'm trying to recall how one goes about doing a case insensitive  
> search
> for the filename.  I know that I can use the //i matching operator.
> Would a foreach loop and passing each glob by the /filename.ext/i  
> match
> be the way to go?

That would work. You could also use lc() or uc() to convert each  
filename to all lower or upper case and then do a simple eq conditional.

Steve

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