TCompareOption

How to compare strings

Declaration

Source position: ustringh.inc line 60

Description

TCompareOption indicates how 2 strings should be compared. This option is used in the WideStringManager implementation when comparing 2 strings. The following options exist:

Ignore case linguistically (usually identical to coIgnoreCase)

Ignore diacritic characters

Ignore case (usually identical to coLingIgnoreCase)

Corresponding hiragana and katakana characters compare as equal.

Corresponding hiragana and katakana characters compare as equal.

Ignore nonspace characters (usually identical to coLingIgnoreDiacritic)

Ignore symbols and punctuation characters

Ignore half-width and full width characters (used in Chinese and Japanese)

Use linguistic rules for casing, instead of file system rules

Treat digits as numbers (20 before 120)

Handle punctuation as symbols

Not all platforms will support all possibilities.

See also