Re: Case Insensitive Lookup

["Scott Swaim" <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am not the original poster but want to thank all who responded.  The
solution below worked for a problem that just came up for me.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Crothers <bob@cstoneindy.com>
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com' <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Friday, March 19, 1999 7:13 AM
Subject: RE: Case Insensitive Lookup


>Glen,
>
>In your logical file at the file level, add ALTSEQ(QSYSTRNTBL).  Below
>is an example.  This will provide a case insensitive key.
>
>     A
>                                                ALTSEQ(QSYSTRNTBL)
>     A
>     A          R MIDRNGR                   PFILE(MIDRNGP)
>     A
>     A          K COMPNY
>     A          K CONTCT
>
>
>Bob
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Glenn Gordon [SMTP:glenn_gordon@wcg.org]
>Sent: Thursday, March 18, 1999 7:34 PM
>To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>Subject: Case Insensitive Lookup
>
>I'm trying to provide a case insensitive lookup for a database key
>field
>containing both upper and lower case.  The user, by typing:
>
>FLINTSTONE, FRED
>
>should be positioned to:
>
>Flintstone, Fred
>Flintstone, Wilma
>etc.
>
>Using the normal collating sequence, this would position beyond all of
>the F's.
>How can this be done without changing the actual data to upper case or
>creating
>an additional field containing the upper case version.
>
>There must be a simple way to do this...
>
>Thanks for any help you can provide!
>
>Glenn
>
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