Irina Medvinskaya offers an example that shows how VB.NET’s String.Compare method can come in handy when you need to compare two string variables. Working with strings is a very important ...

Java’s String class encapsulates an array of bytes. A byte can be converted to a char, in which case, String becomes an array of characters used to compose words, sentences, or any other data you want ...

I was kinda hoping to avoid the translate method because it seems ugly to me. Like I said, it would be easier to just wrap things in a little javascript function.<BR><BR>ms:string-compare might be the ...

Thanks for the reply! I thought about that approach, but am on the fence about it (it just doesn't seem like a clean way to go, for whatever reason). My feeling is that there must be code in the JDK ...