To compare two string, ignoring case, use string.Compare and not string.ToLower in C#

22 June, 2009 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments

If you want to compare two string, ignoring case, use string.Compare and not string.ToLower, for performance reasons.

if (string.Compare(stringA, stringA, true) == 0)
{

    // Strings are equal (case ignored)

}

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