What exactly is "case sensitive?"?

Question

When you sign up for something and you come to the box where you enter the password you will use it sometimes says "this is case sensitive." WHAT THE HECK IS CASE SENSITIVE?

Answer 1

A password can be i) fully in capital letters, say 'KHAN' ii) fully in small letters, say 'khan' or iii) in a mixture of capital & small letters, say 'KhAn' or in alpha-numeric, like 'k1a2' or '1h2N'.



Whenever one is given the box-message that it is case-sensitive, the user is expected to retype exactly the same way one made it at the time of signing-up - as explained above. Otherwise, one could not gain entry / log-in.

Answer 2

Term used to describe text or inputted text that is capitalization sensitive. In other words, "Computer" and "computer" are two different words because the "C" is in uppercase and lowercase. Many times a password and/or username may be case sensitive. If this is the case, your username and/or password must have the proper case or you will be unable to log in. Often users will experience the inability to log into a case sensitive login because their caps lock key is on.

Answer 3

It means the password you enter will only work the exact way you typed it - upper or lower case. So if you make your password "PassWord" you will need to enter it exactly that way next time to get in. They tell you that so you'll be aware.

Answer 4

It means that the software sees UPPER CASE (OR CAPITAL) LETTERS as different from lower case (or un-capitalized) letters. Operationally, it means you can have a more complex password by mixing up the letters, such as "paSSworD". You can use a word you are familiar with as your password, but make it hardwer for somebody to hack. For example, you might use the city you live in, but mess with the capitalization: NewYork or newYORK or NEWyork or NeWyOrK - which the software would see as 4 different passwords.

Answer 5

that means that the password you are using is specific...if you used caps lock or the shift key while assigning a password...it is case sensitive. the next time you login you will need to type it exactly as you created it

Answer 6

That means what you're typing in will actually be DIFFERENT if you use all caps versus all lower case. So if your password is all lower case, don't have the Caps Lock key on...that passwork won't work if typed in that way.

Answer 7

I get very uncomfortable around upper-case letters... I think that's called case-sensitivity

Answer 8

It means for instance if you setup your password in capital letters, you should always type it as such because the same password in small letters will not be recognised the same way.

Answer 9

(adj.) Describes a program's ability to distinguish between uppercase (capital) and lowercase (small) letters.



A case-sensitive program that expects you to enter all commands in uppercase will not respond correctly if you enter one or more characters in lowercase. It will treat the command RUN differently from run. Programs that do not distinguish between uppercase and lowercase are said to be case-insensitive.

Answer 10

heres an example: say when you create an account so somethin your pass word it "hello" that means you can only trype it in that way. not like "HELLO" or"HeLlO" it but be the exact same as when you created the account. but also to make things more complicated for people to just guess and type your pass word you could have in all caps or mixed to you likeing. but it always has to be the exact way yu entered it when yoiu crated the account.

Answer 11

When you type words in capital letters or lower case letters

Answer 12

it means if you type PASSWORD as your password and next time you come back and type password, or Password it wont work. It not only registers the characters but also if they are capitalized.

Answer 13

They're talking about upper and lower case, you know capital and little letters. If something requires capital letters and you make them small, its not going to recognize it.

Answer 14

If it is case sensitive if the original was written in small letters, you must retype it in small letters (lower case.) If it was originally in capital letters you must retype it in capital letters.

Answer 15

it means it matters what casing you put it in, e.g if you sign up as JmhaL, youd have to sign in as JmhaL if it was case sensitive.

if it WASNT case sensitive, it wouldnt matter. you could sign in as JMHAL or jmhal or even jMHaL if you wanted. wild world of computing, eh.

Answer 16

Do you mind them selling, passing or giving your details on to other ( trusted ) organizations.

Always opt for a password.

Answer 17

case sensitive reffers to the typing that it is 'sensitive' if you use caps or not.

Answer 18

when you type in UPPER or lower case LeTtErS

Answer 19

It won't login or work if you have something capitalized that's not supposed to be, and vise versa

Answer 20

if it matters if a letter is in large caps (K) or small (k)