Lingo in a Nutshell

Appendix C. Case-Sensitivity, Sort Order, Diacritical Marks, and Space-Sensitivity

This appendix covers the idiosyncrasies of uppercase and lowercase characters, sort order ranking, spacing, and diacritical marks in Director.

Case-Sensitivity

For the most part, Director is case-insensitive (that is, not case-sensitive).

The following are all case-insensitive:

• Handler names

• Variable names

• String comparison using =, <>, contains, starts, or offset(), and clause evaluation in case statements.

• Symbol names (see exceptions below)

• Symbol lookup using deleteOne(), getOne(), getPos(), findPos(), and findPosNear(); refer to Chapter 6, and Chapter 19.

• External local filenames, including Lingo properties that use external files

• Macintosh hard drive names

• Castmember names

• Marker label names

• Xtras’ names and methods

• XObject names and methods

• Lingo keywords

• Strings recognized by Director, such as “left,” “right,” and “center”

• VBScript and JavaScript using Microsoft Internet Explorer only

• HTML tags

• e-mail addresses

The following items are case-sensitive to some degree:

• Symbols—converting a symbol to a string using string(#symbolName) will always return a string with the same case with which the symbol was first declared. Refer to Chapter 19.

• String lookup using deleteOne(), getOne(), getPos(), findPos(), findPosNear(), and sort(); refer to Chapter 6.

• String comparisons using <, <=, >, >=, min(), and max().

• Macintosh File Type and Creator Codes (as used in the FileIO Xtra’s setFinderInfo, getFinderInfo(), and setFilterMask ...