[Proposal] ignoreCase method

[Isiah Meadows]

I would be a fan of adding a `string.compare(other, {ignoreCase = false,
unicode = false})` that purely works by character code/code point and is
required to return 1, 0, or -1. That would be easier to spec, and is more
generally useful when you're working with strings for computers, not people.

But that's largely independent of this proposal.


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Isiah Meadows
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On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 11:37 AM, Robert Wozniak <wozniakj.robert at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
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> I think you’re right, It could be simpler to do it like that.
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> I have checked “localeCompare”, it does compare case sensitive strings but
> it doesn’t compare strings in an array and to do it, you will have to
> execute the method as many times as strings in an array. By using
> ignoreCase method, you will pass specific array and the method will do it
> for you inside. Second thing, “localeCompare” returns numbers: 0, 1, -1, -2
> depends on the result, a method proposed by me returns true or false.
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> Another thing would be that “localeCompare” is heavier that ignoreCase
> method. I think we should have lightweight alternative to compare case
> sensitive strings.
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