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> Subject: 'eq' operator case insensitive?
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> Is there a way to change the behavior of the 'eq' operator? I want it to
> perform case insensitive comparisons.

I don't know if you can change the behavior of eq (or ne) but this is what I
do:

(uc $v1) eq (uc $v2)

I uppercase $v1 and $v2 before using eq. I don't know if the parentheses are
necessary or in fact cause extra work for Perl.

Richard

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