How to make a tag not case sensitive?

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#1

The title already explains what I mean! If anyone can help, please tell me how to do this! Thanks!!!

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#2

This seems like a problem of https://xyproblem.info/. Why do you need the tag to be “not case sensitive”? There’s most likely a better solution.

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#3

Assuming you’re trying to fetch a case sensitive tag using a lowercase queue:

local function getTags(object: Instance, queue: string): {string}
	queue = queue:lower()
	local results = {}
	for _, tag: string in pairs(object:GetTags()) do
		if tag:lower() == queue then table.insert(results, tag) end
	end
	return results 
end

local function getTag(object: Instance, queue: string): string?
	return getTags(object, queue)[1]
end

--example usage
local object = workspace.Baseplate 

object:AddTag("FooBar") 

print(getTag(object, "foobar")) --FooBar
#4

You could definitely use a coroutine iterator here instead to save on performance :stuck_out_tongue:
Turn getTags() into an iterator so it can stop the loop early when the desired result is already found

--!strict

local function getTags(object: Instance, queue: string): () -> string
	queue = queue:lower()
	return coroutine.wrap(function()
		for _, tag: string in object:GetTags() do
			if tag:lower() == queue then
				coroutine.yield(tag)
			end
		end
	end)
end

local object = workspace.Baseplate 

object:AddTag("FooBar") 

print( getTags(object, 'foobar')() ) --FooBar
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