Disable case sensitivity!! vb.net 2005 1

[DimMeAsNewbie]

Does anyone know how i can disable case sensitivity.I want my programme to disregard instances where a user presses a key and if that character is in the corresponding file but in uppercase to display regardless.

Thanks!

 

[ThatRickGuy]

I'm not sure I follow you, VB.Net 2005 is (in most places atleast) case insensitive. If you are asking about making a process in your code case insensitive, it might help to get a bit of code, but the usual easy way to do it is to set both compared strings to upper case:

MyVariable = "mY sTRING"
if "My String".ToUpper = MyVariable.ToUpper then msgbox "They match!"

-Rick

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[DimMeAsNewbie]

Thanks Rick,
What's happening is i'm reading a word from file which is randomly selected. The words start with a capital letter then small letters. Eg London, so what is happening is if i type in l instead of L it's not recognising and the same for the small letters. I'm not sure how i can disable this to make it work regardless.

Thanks

 

[ThatRickGuy]

Where ever you are capturing the key press, determine what letter was pressed (as a string) and stick .toupper on the end of it.

-Rick

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[DimMeAsNewbie]

Thank You!

 

[rjoubert]

I'll admit I don't quite follow what you're doing, and Rick's solution works well for your needs. But, I just thought I'd chime in with a possible alternative. If you have a textbox control on a form, you can set that textbox control's "CharacterCasing" property to "Upper"...this forces all text entered to uppercase.