From 95d8bc4d8445137e66d90d64823adee8cb376918 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Samuel Johnson <96841389+SFJohnson24@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:38:54 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Update core.py

---
 core.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/core.py b/core.py
index ef104df6b..5c43a0539 100644
--- a/core.py
+++ b/core.py
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ def validate(  # noqa
     # Validate conditional options
     logger = logging.getLogger("validator")
     load_dotenv()
-
+    standard=standard.lower()
     validate_dataset_files_exist(dataset_path, logger, ctx)
 
     if raw_report is True:

From 7b6f3d9a1bde82ebf61de885ebc1f1b23127dc1a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Samuel Johnson <sfjohnson24@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:44:19 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] formatting

---
 core.py | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/core.py b/core.py
index 5c43a0539..ef96c5ac1 100644
--- a/core.py
+++ b/core.py
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ def validate(  # noqa
     # Validate conditional options
     logger = logging.getLogger("validator")
     load_dotenv()
-    standard=standard.lower()
+    standard = standard.lower()
     validate_dataset_files_exist(dataset_path, logger, ctx)
 
     if raw_report is True:
@@ -494,9 +494,9 @@ def validate(  # noqa
             version,
             substandard,
             use_case,
-            set(controlled_terminology_package),  # avoiding duplicates
+            set(controlled_terminology_package),
             output,
-            set(output_format),  # avoiding duplicates
+            set(output_format),
             raw_report,
             define_version,
             external_dictionaries,

From 4e7e03fa8c257c1a86119c88ceb8cca3d3eeaca9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Samuel Johnson <sfjohnson24@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:50:39 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] formatting

---
 core.py | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/core.py b/core.py
index ef96c5ac1..aec9c9535 100644
--- a/core.py
+++ b/core.py
@@ -428,9 +428,11 @@ def validate(  # noqa
     # Validate conditional options
     logger = logging.getLogger("validator")
     load_dotenv()
-    standard = standard.lower()
     validate_dataset_files_exist(dataset_path, logger, ctx)
 
+    if not custom_standard:
+        standard = standard.lower()
+
     if raw_report is True:
         if not (len(output_format) == 1 and output_format[0] == ReportTypes.JSON.value):
             logger.error(
@@ -444,7 +446,7 @@ def validate(  # noqa
 
     cache_path: str = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), cache)
 
-    if standard.lower() == "tig":
+    if standard == "tig":
         if not substandard or not use_case:
             logger.error(
                 "Standard 'tig' requires both --substandard and --use-case to be specified."