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.TH Text.caseless_equals 3 2025-11-29 "Tomo man-pages"
.SH NAME
Text.caseless_equals \- case-insensitive comparison
.SH LIBRARY
Tomo Standard Library
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.BI Text.caseless_equals\ :\ func(a:\ Text,\ b:\ Text,\ language:\ Text\ =\ "C"\ ->\ Bool)
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
Checks whether two texts are equal, ignoring the casing of the letters (i.e. case-insensitive comparison).


.SH ARGUMENTS

.TS
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lb lb lbx lb
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Name	Type	Description	Default
a	Text	The first text to compare case-insensitively. 	-
b	Text	The second text to compare case-insensitively. 	-
language	Text	The ISO 639 language code for which casing rules to use. 	"C"
.TE
.SH RETURN
`yes` if `a` and `b` are equal to each other, ignoring casing, otherwise `no`.

.SH EXAMPLES
.EX
assert "A".caseless_equals("a") == yes

# Turkish lowercase "I" is "ı" (dotless I), not "i"
assert "I".caseless_equals("i", language="tr_TR") == no
.EE
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR Tomo-Text (3)