case insensitive
Adjective
Meaning
case insensitive (not comparable)
(computer science) Treating or interpreting upper- and lowercase letters as being the same.
case-insensitive (not comparable)
Alternative spelling of case insensitive
Alternative names
case-insensitive
Synonyms
Antonyms
Examples
A case-insensitive search could be more convenient, not requiring the user to provide the precise casing, and returning more results, while a case-sensitive search enables the user to focus more precisely on a narrower result set.
A string can also be explicitly specified as case-insensitive with a %i prefix.
HFS saves the case of a file that is created or renamed but is case-insensitive in operation.
Its value must be an unordered set of unique space-separated tokens that are ASCII case-insensitive.
This can be useful after transferring the files from a system with case-insensitive file names to a system with case-sensitive file names.
Header name comparison is always case-insensitive.