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Compares substrings ignoring or honoring their case
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Imports System
Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic
Class Sample
Public Shared Sub Main()
Dim str1 As [String] = "MACHINE"
Dim str2 As [String] = "machine"
Dim str As [String]
Dim result As Integer
Console.WriteLine("Ignore case:")
result = [String].Compare(str1, 2, str2, 2, 2, True)
str = IIf(result < 0, "less than", IIf(result > 0, "greater than", "equal to"))
Console.Write("{0} ", str)
Console.WriteLine("Honor case:")
result = [String].Compare(str1, 2, str2, 2, 2, False)
str = IIf(result < 0, "less than", IIf(result > 0, "greater than", "equal to"))
Console.Write("{0} ", str)
End Sub
End Class
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