From 20c9246f0ffd51e8133574ed0f58314950626cd5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sushant <sushantshetty09@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:08:40 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] fix(api): make code submission comparison case-insensitive

Updated normalizeCode in submissions API to use .toLowerCase() so that case mismatch bugs (like 'Int' vs 'int') do not fail correct solutions.
---
 src/pages/api/submissions/index.ts | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/pages/api/submissions/index.ts b/src/pages/api/submissions/index.ts
index 31d63a8..9af456f 100644
--- a/src/pages/api/submissions/index.ts
+++ b/src/pages/api/submissions/index.ts
@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ export const POST: APIRoute = async ({ request }) => {
       if (language !== 'python') {
         code = code.replace(/\s+/g, ' ');
       }
+    // Normalize case so "Int", "String", "Char", "Printf" etc.
+    // are treated the same as "int", "string", "char", "printf"
+    code = code.toLowerCase();
       return code;
     };
     const normalizedSubmitted = normalizeCode(submittedCode, challenge.language);