Merge branch 'develop' into bug/JAL-2255_seq-fetcher-broken-on-linux

[jalview.git] / src / jalview / util / Comparison.java

diff --git a/src/jalview/util/Comparison.java b/src/jalview/util/Comparison.java
index 0beb45b..1326647 100644 (file)
--- a/src/jalview/util/Comparison.java
+++ b/src/jalview/util/Comparison.java
@@ -415,4 +415,29 @@ public class Comparison
             .size()]);
     return isNucleotide(oneDArray);
   }
+
+  /**
+   * Compares two residues either case sensitively or case insensitively
+   * depending on the caseSensitive flag
+   * 
+   * @param c1
+   *          first char
+   * @param c2
+   *          second char to compare with
+   * @param caseSensitive
+   *          if true comparison will be case sensitive otherwise its not
+   * @return
+   */
+  public static boolean isSameResidue(char c1, char c2,
+          boolean caseSensitive)
+  {
+    if (caseSensitive)
+    {
+      return (c1 == c2);
+    }
+    else
+    {
+      return Character.toUpperCase(c1) == Character.toUpperCase(c2);
+    }
+  }
 }