Comparing filenames based on case sensitive filepaths

[J. Landman Gay]

On 3/8/11 4:37 PM, Terry Judd wrote:
> Due to an obscure but annoying issue with OSX 10.5 I need to be able to
> check for the existence of a file based on the case of its name before I can
> launch it from Livecode. The exists function isn¹t case sensitive and the
> only idea I¹ve been able to come up with to date is to use the files
> function, filter the results based on the filename and then compare the two
> filenames (having set the caseSensitive property to true). This seems a bit
> long winded and I was hoping for a simpler and quicker way.

The Mac isn't case-sensitive, and it won't let you duplicate names 
regardless of their case. I'm curious why you'd need to distinguish by that.

I can't think of any other way to compare case than what you've come up 
with though.

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