Comparer.FromCulture

 

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Returns a comparer function given the culture and a logical value for case sensitivity for the comparison. The default value for ignoreCase is false. The value for culture are well known text representations of locales used in the .NET framework.

Comparer.FromCulture(culture as text, optional ignoreCase as nullable logical) as function  

ArgumentDescription
cultureA text value corresponding to the culture values supported on your version of Windows, such as "en-US". If the culture is not specified, the current user culture is used. For a list of culture names, see National Language Support (NLS) API Reference.
optional ignoreCaseLogical value whether or not to ignore the case.
let  
comparer1 = Comparer.FromCulture("en-us", false),  
comparer2 = Comparer.FromCulture("en-us", true)      
in       
[         
Test1 =  comparer1("a","A"), equals  -1   
Test2 =  comparer2("a","A") equals  0    
]  

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