Case Sensitive

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:07:15 +0000

“Case sensitive” is a term indicating that text is sensitive to letter case, meaning it distinguishes between uppercase and lowercase letters.

We’ll see how it works in practice by looking at the situations below:

Case Sensitive

texto is different from Texto, because the second word starts with a capitalized consonant.

Case Insensitive

texto is the same as Texto, there is no distinction between letter cases.

A related concept joins words and capitalizes the letters at the beginning of each word, called CamelCase.

The CamelCase Convention

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:03:07 +0000

CamelCase (camel case) is the practice of writing compound words or phrases with their elements joined, without spaces, and the first letter of each element capitalized, meaning the uppercase letters “jump” out among the lowercase ones like a camel’s humps.

Example: “meuComputador, “jogoDeFutebol” or “linguagemProgramacao”.

Conventions on jpcercal.com

Case Sensitive

The CamelCase Convention