Title sums it up.
A:
No. You will have to fiddle with your data, I usually make all my strings lowercase for easy comparisons. There is also the possibility of using a custom comparison function which would do the necessary transforms to make the comparison case insensitive.
adamse
2010-08-02 19:10:02
+1
A:
could loop through the array and toLower each element and toLower what you're looking for, but at that point in time, you may as well just compare it instead of using inArray()
Crayon Violent
2010-08-02 19:10:10
+5
A:
You can use each()...
// Iterate over an array of strings, select the first elements that
// equalsIgnoreCase the 'matchString' value
var matchString = "MATCHME";
var rslt = null;
$.each(['foo', 'bar', 'matchme'], function(index, value) {
if (rslt == null && value.toLowerCase().equals(matchString.toLowerCase())) {
rslt = index;
return false;
}
});
Drew Wills
2010-08-02 19:12:33
You will want to add a "return false;" at the end of that if statement so the 'each' doesn't continue after a matching element is found. (In jQuery.each() "return false;" is equivalent to "break;" in a regular JavaScript loop.)
Jordan
2010-08-02 19:15:30
Isn't it toLowerCase rather than toLower?
Sarfraz
2010-08-02 19:15:31
@Jordan and @Sarfraz: both good points
Drew Wills
2010-08-02 19:28:11
+1
A:
Hi John,
It looks like you may have to implement your own solution to this. Here is a good article on adding custom functions to jQuery. You will just need to write a custom function to loop and normalize the the data then compare.
http://jquery-howto.blogspot.com/2008/12/how-to-add-your-own-custom-functions-to.html
Skyler
2010-08-02 19:16:30