Re: Case insensitive file open in Perl

On Monday 02 November 2009 19:50:00 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?
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Nate >>

How about "locate -i filename" ?

cat filename | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]" will make the whole file lower case.

bruce