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   5 .TH Text.caseless_equals 3 2025-11-29 "Tomo man-pages"
   6 .SH NAME
   7 Text.caseless_equals \- case-insensitive comparison
   8 .SH LIBRARY
   9 Tomo Standard Library
  10 .SH SYNOPSIS
  11 .nf
  12 .BI Text.caseless_equals\ :\ func(a:\ Text,\ b:\ Text,\ language:\ Text\ =\ "C"\ ->\ Bool)
  13 .fi
  14 .SH DESCRIPTION
  15 Checks whether two texts are equal, ignoring the casing of the letters (i.e. case-insensitive comparison).
  16 
  17 
  18 .SH ARGUMENTS
  19 
  20 .TS
  21 allbox;
  22 lb lb lbx lb
  23 l l l l.
  24 Name	Type	Description	Default
  25 a	Text	The first text to compare case-insensitively. 	-
  26 b	Text	The second text to compare case-insensitively. 	-
  27 language	Text	The ISO 639 language code for which casing rules to use. 	"C"
  28 .TE
  29 .SH RETURN
  30 `yes` if `a` and `b` are equal to each other, ignoring casing, otherwise `no`.
  31 
  32 .SH EXAMPLES
  33 .EX
  34 assert "A".caseless_equals("a") == yes
  35 
  36 # Turkish lowercase "I" is "ı" (dotless I), not "i"
  37 assert "I".caseless_equals("i", language="tr_TR") == no
  38 .EE
  39 .SH SEE ALSO
  40 .BR Tomo-Text (3)