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Admin at 23:30, 12 March 2009

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Text sometimes exhibits '''case sensitivity'''; that is, words can differ in meaning based on differing use of [[uppercase]] and [[lowercase]] letters. Words with [[capital letter|capital letters]] don't always have the same meaning when written with lowercase letters. For example, Bill is the first name of former U.S. president Bill Clinton, who could sign a bill (which is a proposed law that was approved by Congress). And a Polish person can use polish to clean something.

When a computer program compares two words to decide whether they are the same, it might or might not apply case sensitivity, depending upon the programmer’s intent.

Case sensitivity is relevant to:

* usernames
* passwords
* filenames
* tags
* commands
* variable names
* website addresses
* searching for a text string within electronic text
==See Also==
* [[uppercase|UPPERCASE]]
* [[lowercase]]

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Admin at 23:30, 12 March 2009