Converting strings to lowercase

Question

How does one convert a string to a lowercase or perform some kind of equivalency comparison ignoring case? There is an ignore case on the Ascii type but it seems convoluted and I don't see a way to convert str to Ascii.

Answer 1

std::ascii::AsciiExt.eq_ignore_ascii_case does what you want:

use std::ascii::AsciiExt;

fn main() {
    assert!("foo".eq_ignore_ascii_case("FOO"));
}

(The search in the docs is quite good now; searches like "case" and "ascii" return good sets of results which contain this solution.)