What is case sensitivity: Case sensitivity is the mechanism in which words can be differ in meaning based on different use of uppercase and lowercase letters.
Introduction
- What is case sensitivity
- Case
sensitivity in Computers
- Case Sensitive and case insensitive Languages
- Examples
What is case
sensitivity: Case sensitivity is
the mechanism in which words
can be differ in meaning based on different use of uppercase and lowercase
letters. Sometime words can differ in meaning with the same words while starts
with capital letter with lowercase letters.
Case sensitivity in Computers: Case
sensitivity is the mechanism by which computer compares two words to decide whether they are equal, it may or may
not consider words equal which only differ in case.
Case Sensitive and case insensitive Languages: On
the basis of case sensitivity, computer languages can be divided into two parts.
Computer languages like C, C++ and java are case
sensitive languages while others are case
insensitive like BASIC and Pascal.
Examples:
§ The Java class Helloworld
is a completely different class from the class HelloWorld.
§ public static void main(String
args[]) is totally different from public static void main(string args[]).
§ If you compare two strings in a case
sensitive way then they are considered different if they differ only in capitalization e.g.
comparing the string by using the method String.compareTo,
If you
compare two Strings in a case insensitive way then they are considered equal if they differ only in capitalization.