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Mash Case Vi. To Lose Or Obliterate The Uppercase/lowercase Distinction In Text Input.
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smash case vi.
To lose or obliterate the
uppercase/lowercase distinction in text input. "MS-DOS will
automatically smash case in the names of all the files you
create." Compare fold case.
Related:
mash case: vi. To lose or obliterate the uppercase/lowercase distinction in text input.
MS-DOS will automatically smash case in the names of all the files you create....
Great Runes n. Uppercase-only text or display messages.
Some archaic operating systems still emit these....
fold case v. See smash case. This term tends to be used more by people who don't mind that their tools smash case.
It also connotes that case is ignored but case distinctions in data processed by the tool in question aren't destroyed....
blurgle /bler'gl/ n. [UK] Spoken metasyntactic variable, to indicate some text that is obvious from c which is already known.
If several words are to be replaced, blurgle may well be doubled or tripled....
blurgle: /bler'gl/ [Great Britain] n. Spoken {metasyntactic variable}, to indicate some text that is obvious from context, or which is already known.
If several words are to be replaced, blurgle may well be doubled or trebled....
A good number of people race trains to the railroad crossing to avoid the wait.
However, in case of a tie, you lose....
pecial-case vt. To write unique code to handle input to or situations arising in a program that are somehow distinguished from normal processing.
This would be used for processing of mode switches or interrupt characters in an interactive interface (as opposed, say, to text entry or normal commands), or for processing of hidden flags in the input of a batch program or filter....
You should be aware of the conditional case if you was to use it.
Nothing cures a case of nerves like a case of beer!