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Using incorrect casing in typeof checks in TypeScript

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What this snippet does

TypeScript's typeof checks are case-sensitive and must match the lowercase primitive names.

Expected output

Compile Error: This comparison appears to be unintentional because the types '"string" | "number"' and '"String"' have no overlap.

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