You could look at using your own custom operator. <div><br></div><div>Wolfgang Laun linked to an article of his recently explaining the approach.<div><br></div><div>I&#39;m not sure if custom operators however allow for indexing in the RETE network and therefore whether they&#39;re any faster than eval.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Wolfgang, Edson, can you advise in your experience?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Mike</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 November 2010 16:04, H.C. <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:canterburry@gmail.com">canterburry@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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We have a requirement to display data as stored (with the right casing) but<br>
for evaluation purposes strings should be compared case in-sensitive. We<br>
have several hundred rules touching these particular strings and would<br>
really like to avoid doing eval( x != null &amp;&amp; x.equalsIngoreCase(y) )<br>
everywhere. Is there anywhere in drools that we could configure to make<br>
string matching case in-sensitive?<br>
<br>
Since we have to display the data with casing elsewhere, putting<br>
x.toLowerCase() in all our getter methods doesn&#39;t seem to be an option.<br>
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