ArrayList contains case sensitivity

Question

I am currently using the contains method belonging to the ArrayList class for making a search. Is there a way to make this search case insensitive in java? I found that in C

Answer 1

By using compareToIgnoreCase, http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.3/docs/api/java/lang/String.html#compareToIgnoreCase%28java.lang.String%29 you should be able to do what you want!