Answers.Body: <p>It depends on the underlying MySQL collation of the database and the tables Craft is searching against.  The MySQL 5.1 rules surrounding this can be found here: <a href="https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/case-sensitivity.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/case-sensitivity.html</a></p>
  
  <p>There isn't anything in Craft where you can toggle the case sensitivity of searches.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Update:</strong></p>
  
  <p>Turns out I was completely wrong on this. Case sensitive searches <em>would</em> rely on the database's underlying collation if Craft didn't normalize all search keywords to lowercase first.</p>
  
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Body: <p>Is Craft's <a href="http://buildwithcraft.com/docs/searching" rel="nofollow">Search</a> case-insensitive?</p>
  
  <p>(And is there a way to toggle case-sensitivity on/off?)</p>
  
Tags: <search>
Title: Is Craft's search() case-insensitive?
ThreadText: # Is Craft's search() case-insensitive?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-02-23)
  
  Is Craft's [Search](http://buildwithcraft.com/docs/searching) case-insensitive?
  
  (And is there a way to toggle case-sensitivity on/off?)
  
  **Tags:** search
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2015-02-23. Score: 4 | Accepted answer
  
  It depends on the underlying MySQL collation of the database and the tables Craft is searching against. The MySQL 5.1 rules surrounding this can be found here: <https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/case-sensitivity.html>
  
  There isn't anything in Craft where you can toggle the case sensitivity of searches.
  
  **Update:**
  
  Turns out I was completely wrong on this. Case sensitive searches *would* rely on the database's underlying collation if Craft didn't normalize all search keywords to lowercase first.
  
  
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