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Building case insensitive movie database

I'm doing a university assignment, where I have to build 4 classes, one of which is a interface.

I need to make sure that strings are not case sensitive e.g. "the godfather", "The godfather", "The Godfather", are treated as the same movie. how can I do this?

Solution

  • Adding to what Aaron said, I would like to point out that it really depends on your implementation. By the way I am seeing it, you are tasked with creating a "search" function which searches through the database. Properly storing the movie names would be saving them in their actual format ("The Godfather") but when a search is initiated you want to match the search query with the database using the String .equalsIgnoreCase() function. For example:

    String a = "The Godfather"
String b = "the godfather"
String c = "The Godfather"
String d = "thE GoDfaTher"
System.out.println(a.equalsIgnoreCase(b)); // Outputs true
System.out.println(a.equalsIgnoreCase(c)); // Outputs true
System.out.println(a.equalsIgnoreCase(d)); // Outputs true
System.out.println(a.equals(b)); // Outputs false