# Exact match and case insensitive

**URL:** <https://community.swiftype.com/t/exact-match-and-case-insensitive/328>\
**Category:** API\
**Tags:** api, meta-tags\
**Created:** [March 15, 2017, 8:48pm UTC](https://community.swiftype.com/t/exact-match-and-case-insensitive/328 "2017-03-15T20:48:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![jroque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@jroque](https://community.swiftype.com/u/jroque)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 8:48pm UTC](https://community.swiftype.com/t/exact-match-and-case-insensitive/328/1 "2017-03-15T20:48:49Z")

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Hi,

I’m doing an exact match search (wrapping the term with quotes) however I also want to make it case insensitive. So right now if I search for “ABC” it only returns record with “ABC” but I want to return “abc” as well.

Is this possible? Should I lower case all the terms before I index it to swiftype? and then on my search api call I’ll always change the terms to lowercase?

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**Author:** ![donald.record](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@donald.record](https://community.swiftype.com/u/donald.record)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 3:19pm UTC](https://community.swiftype.com/t/exact-match-and-case-insensitive/328/2 "2018-05-08T15:19:44Z")

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I am having this issue as well. Is there anyway to work around this, or specify this in a search parameter?