# Password with capital letters or not

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/password-with-capital-letters-or-not/265058
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [July 3, 2008, 1:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/password-with-capital-letters-or-not/265058 "2008-07-03T13:44:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![felipegm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@felipegm](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/felipegm)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2008, 1:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/password-with-capital-letters-or-not/265058/1 "2008-07-03T13:44:02Z")

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Hi

I´m making a simple password system in flash.It´s working fine, but I´d like to make it capital letter not sensitive, so the user can put “Password” or password, and on either way, would work. How do i do it?

Thanks

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### Author: ![Voetsjoeba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ac91a4/32.png) [@Voetsjoeba](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Voetsjoeba)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2008, 4:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/password-with-capital-letters-or-not/265058/2 "2008-07-03T16:02:11Z")

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You don’t. Passwords are supposed to be case sensitive!

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### Author: ![glosrfc](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/glosrfc/32/8334_2.png) [@glosrfc](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/glosrfc)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2008, 4:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/password-with-capital-letters-or-not/265058/3 "2008-07-03T16:36:02Z")

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For security purposes, it makes sense to distinguish between upper and lower case passwords…but, for a simple password checking routine, there’s no reason why you can’t convert the user-entered text using String.toUpperCase

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### Author: ![felipegm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@felipegm](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/felipegm)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2008, 5:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/password-with-capital-letters-or-not/265058/4 "2008-07-03T17:52:57Z")

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I know… but in this case, they should not.

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### Author: ![felipegm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@felipegm](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/felipegm)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2008, 7:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/password-with-capital-letters-or-not/265058/5 "2008-07-03T19:01:08Z")

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[QUOTE=glosrfc;2353172]For security purposes, it makes sense to distinguish between upper and lower case passwords…but, for a simple password checking routine, there’s no reason why you can’t convert the user-entered text using String.toUpperCase[/QUOTE]

thanks glosrfc

It helped a lot! 😃

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### Author: ![Rock\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a4c791/32.png) [@Rock\_Devil](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Rock_Devil)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2008, 7:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/password-with-capital-letters-or-not/265058/6 "2008-07-03T19:07:16Z")

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Try with. 🙂