Method: String#casecmp?

Defined in:
string.c

#casecmp?(other_string) ⇒ true, ...

Returns true if self and other_string are equal after Unicode case folding, otherwise false:

'foo'.casecmp?('foo') # => true
'foo'.casecmp?('food') # => false
'food'.casecmp?('foo') # => false
'FOO'.casecmp?('foo') # => true
'foo'.casecmp?('FOO') # => true

Returns nil if the two values are incomparable:

'foo'.casecmp?(1) # => nil

See Case Mapping.

Related: String#casecmp.

Returns:

  • (true, false, nil) 


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# File 'string.c', line 4338

static VALUE
rb_str_casecmp_p(VALUE str1, VALUE str2)
{
    VALUE s = rb_check_string_type(str2);
    if (NIL_P(s)) {
        return Qnil;
    }
    return str_casecmp_p(str1, s);
}