On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 5:06 PM Steve Barnes <GadgetSteve@live.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I personally think that there is a better case for an ignore_case flag – the number of times that I have been caught out with [‘a.doc’, ‘b.Doc’, ‘c.DOC’] especially on MS platforms.
>

Case insensitivity is a mess. I think it'd be a lot cleaner to keep
this as-is, and for the case insensitive use-case, people can still do
it manually. (Basically case-fold for the comparison, but then trim
from the original as is.)

ChrisA
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