Case insensitive matching in Java switch-case statement

Question

I was wondering if there is a way to perform case insensitive match in java switch case statement. the default implementation is case sensitive. Please see the example below.

public class SwitchCaseTest {

    /**
     * @param args
     */
     public static void main(String[] args) {

        switch ("UPPER") {
            case  "upper" :
                System.out.println("true");
                break;

            default:
                System.out.println("false");
                break;
        }
    }
}

So above statement returns false as output. And i am trying make it work for case-insensitive match like String.equalsIgnoreCase() would do. I tried to convert both the string literal to lower case and then compare. but was unable to do so.

Answer 1

If you want to do that: just make sure the input data is in all lowercase, and use lowercase cases...

switch ("UPPER".toLowerCase()) {
case  "upper" :

....

Localization issues

Also, the ages old issue of localization strikes again, and plagues this thing too... For example, in the Turkish Locale, the uppercase counterpart of i is not I, but İ... And in return, the I is not transformed to i, but a "dotless i": ı. Don't underestimate this, it can be a deadly mistake...