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Lua Programming/case sensitivity
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The lua interpreter is case sensitive. This means that identifier names containing lowercase letters will be treated as being different and separate from those containing uppercase letters:
-- These variables are all different
dog = "Benjamin"
Dog = "Samba"
DOG = "Bernie"
print ("The dogs are named " .. dog .. ", " .. Dog .. ", and " .. DOG)
Converting Strings
The lua interpreter provides the following functions for converting strings to uppercase or to lowercase: