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Case sensitive means distinguishing between uppercase and lowercase letters.

In case-sensitive systems, "Password" and "password" are different strings.

Most programming languages and Unix file systems are case sensitive, while Windows filenames typically are not.

The search function is case sensitive, so capitalize proper nouns.

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