Case folding
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Case folding is a term denoting the conversion of all characters in a string to lower or upper-case, typically to make case-insensitive comparisons.
[edit] Case Folding in some high-level languages
Most, if not all, BASIC dialects provide these basic functions:
UpperA$ = UCASE$("a") LowerA$ = LCASE$("A")
C and C++, as well as any C-like language that conforms to its standard library, provide these functions in the file ctype.h:
char upperA = toupper('a'); char lowerA = tolower('A');
[edit] Algorithms to fold case
Case folding is different with different character sets. In ASCII case can be folded in the following way, in C:
#define toupper(c) islower(c) ? (c) - 'a' + 'A' : (c) #define tolower(c) isupper(c) ? (c) - 'A' + 'a' : (c)
This only works because the alphanumeric letters are consecutive. This would not work, for instance, with EBCDIC.
[edit] Unicode case folding
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Unicode defines case folding through the three case mapping properties of each character: uppercase, lowercase and titlecase. These properties relate all characters in scripts with differring cases to the other case variants of the character.
