{"id":6133,"date":"2022-09-01T15:22:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T09:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-how-to-convert-upper-case-to-lowercase-stored-in-a-variable-inside-switch-statment-duplicate\/"},"modified":"2022-09-01T15:22:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T09:52:52","slug":"solved-how-to-convert-upper-case-to-lowercase-stored-in-a-variable-inside-switch-statment-duplicate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-how-to-convert-upper-case-to-lowercase-stored-in-a-variable-inside-switch-statment-duplicate\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] How to convert upper case to lowercase stored in a variable inside switch statment [duplicate]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-52222518\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"52222518\" data-parentid=\"52222397\" data-score=\"0\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>The expression <code>\"cake\" || \"Cake\"<\/code> evaluates to true, because both those strings are <em>truthy<\/em>. So when user&#8217;s input is compared with that value, for example <code>\"cake\" == true<\/code>, it evaluates to true because the user&#8217;s input (<code>\"cake\"<\/code>) is also truthy.<\/p>\n<p>To ignore the case of user&#8217;s input, you can simply convert it to lowercase (by <code>make.toLowerCase()<\/code>) before comparing:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"snippet\" data-lang=\"js\" data-hide=\"false\" data-console=\"true\" data-babel=\"false\">\n<div class=\"snippet-code\">\n<pre class=\"snippet-code-js lang-js prettyprint-override\"><code>var make = prompt(\"Hey! What you are up to cake or pancake?\");\r\nswitch (make.toLowerCase()) {\r\n  case \"cake\":\r\n    console.log(\"Okay! Great choice  We are working hard for your cake\");\r\n    break;\r\n  case \"pancake\":\r\n    console.log(\"Okay! Great choice   We are working hard for your pancake\");\r\n    break;\r\n  default:\r\n    console.log(\"Sorry we Only have cake or pancake to choose from.\");\r\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you are not familiar with the concept of <em>truthy<\/em> or <em>falsy<\/em> values, you can read MDN&#8217;s documentation here: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en-US\/docs\/Glossary\/Truthy\">https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en-US\/docs\/Glossary\/Truthy<\/a> &amp; <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en-US\/docs\/Glossary\/falsy\">https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en-US\/docs\/Glossary\/falsy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\">1<\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved How to convert upper case to lowercase stored in a variable inside switch statment [duplicate] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The expression &#8220;cake&#8221; || &#8220;Cake&#8221; evaluates to true, because both those strings are truthy. 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