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add note about case insensitivity of column names
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fixes #577

Note that this was also addressed for the new user docs (coming soon!) in caporaso-lab/using-qiime2#3.
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gregcaporaso authored Oct 9, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ The following rules apply to column names:

- May consist of any Unicode characters.
- Cannot be empty (i.e. column names must consist of at least one character).
- Must be unique (exact string matching is performed to detect duplicates).
- Must be unique without regard to case (e.g., columns `foo` and `Foo` in the same file are not allowed).
- Column names cannot use any of the reserved ID column names described in the section :ref:`identifier-column`.

The following rules apply to column values:
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