eql() method in Chai.js Case sensitive?

I have not written postman scripts before, little confused on what the eql() does, does it compare the values ? Is it case sensitive ?

pm.expect(responseData.results[globals.randomNumber].created_by).to.eql("mwasserman");


This particular line fails if the returned value is in upper case. How can I make it ignore the cases ? Thanks

responseData.results[globals.randomNumber].created_by.toLowerCase()

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the postman tests uses the Chai assertion library (http://www.chaijs.com/api/bdd/) to make the assertion. And as you can see in the documentation it compares the objects in a deeply way, so yes if your strings are different in case it will fail:

Asserts that the target is deeply equal to the given obj. See the
deep-eql project page for info on the deep equality algorithm:
https://github.com/chaijs/deep-eql.

Here is the documentation of eql method: http://www.chaijs.com/api/bdd/#method_eql.

I think that a best solution in this case would be to convert both string either to upper case or lower case with the javascript methods:

"string".toLowerCase()

"string".toUpperCase()

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