# WTG!? Actionscript NOT case sensitive? **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [April 28, 2003, 6:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/wtg-actionscript-not-case-sensitive/19436 "2003-04-28T06:57:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mindfriction](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/mindfriction/32/172_2.png) [@mindfriction](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mindfriction)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 6:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/wtg-actionscript-not-case-sensitive/19436/1 "2003-04-28T06:57:34Z")
I have been working on a large sized movie lately and found that I was getting some unknown errors. So naturally I placed trace statements, still I had no idea what was going on. Then low- and -behold I noticed that I had two varaibles one name xPos the other Xpos. Now of course noramally I would assume like other programming languages such as java and C++ variables are case sensitive. I found that If I assigned xPos a value and wrote a trace statement (with different case) ie ```auto trace(Xpos) ``` I would get the value of xpos. IS this normal ? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 6:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/wtg-actionscript-not-case-sensitive/19436/2 "2003-04-28T06:58:46Z")
yup! AS is not case sensitive… Rev ![](http://www.aulman.com/rev.gif) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 12:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/wtg-actionscript-not-case-sensitive/19436/3 "2003-04-28T12:12:32Z")
_slaps self_ I should have found this out earlier. Thanks anyway 🙂