case-sensitive
Britishadjective
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The answers are case-sensitive, so participants have to keep that in mind.
From The Verge • Jul. 15, 2020
The next thing you know, you’re submitting to a security-question inquisition from your banking institution, trying desperately to prove your identity having thrice entered your case-sensitive password incorrectly.
From Slate • Feb. 1, 2012
Words are case-sensitive, i.e. if a word uses the same upper and lower case character in a chapter, both forms are listed, because of the differences in the Unicode values.
From The Hawk of Egypt by Conquest, Joan
Note that ftp sites are no different from Unix sites in general: they are case-sensitive.
From Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet by Electronic Frontier Foundation
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