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case-sensitive

British  

adjective

  1. distinguishing between upper-case and lower-case letters

    users can now perform case-sensitive searches

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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

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

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

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