title: Case-insensitive string comparison in Julia
body: <p>I'm sure this has a simple answer, but how does one compare two string and ignore case in Julia? I've hacked together a rather inelegant solution:</p>
  
  <pre><code>function case_insensitive_match{S&lt;:AbstractString}(a::S,b::S)
      lowercase(a) == lowercase(b)
  end
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>There must be a better way!</p>