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DO NOT REPLY [Bug 24537] New: - Add CaseInsensitiveHashMap

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Add CaseInsensitiveHashMap

           Summary: Add CaseInsensitiveHashMap
           Product: Commons
           Version: Nightly Builds
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Enhancement
          Priority: Other
         Component: Collections
        AssignedTo: commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: dgraham@apache.org


I've found it useful to have a Map implementation that uses case insensitive
Strings as the keys.  One use case is using a Map to represent ResultSet rows
from a database.  The column names returned by ResultSetMetaData.getColumnName()
are unpredictably cased, sometimes all upper and sometimes all lower so it's
necessary to have a case insensitive map for database portable code.  I couldn't
find an existing implementation in collections so here's a version from DbUtils...

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