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Re: case-insensitive string<


From: harven
Subject: Re: case-insensitive string<
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:58:18 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (darwin)

Nikolaj Schumacher <me@nschum.de> writes:

> What's the fastest way to sort a large list of strings in a
> case-insensitive order?
>
> Calling downcase on every string is rather expensive.  Does anyone know
> a better way?

The sort built-in function uses string< as predicate.
You could use compare-strings instead. It has an option IGNORE-CASE.
Hope that helps.


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