Re: case-insensitive string<

[harven]

Nikolaj Schumacher <me@nschum.de> writes:

> What's the fastest way to sort a large list of strings in a
> case-insensitive order?
>
> Calling downcase on every string is rather expensive.  Does anyone know
> a better way?

The sort built-in function uses string< as predicate.
You could use compare-strings instead. It has an option IGNORE-CASE.
Hope that helps.