Nigel Weeks wrote:

>Lower is a UDF that's supplied with Firebird, but you have to use the
>'declare external function' step to hook it in.
>
>The 'upper' one, however, is built in, is guaranteed to be available on
>every Firebird install, and really, do you NEED lower?
>Why not do everything with 'upper'?
>
>Nige.
>
>

Sometimes I see people using lower to do a case-insensitive comparison.
I ever use upper instead. maybe it's just because I have started using
computers on an Apple II clone that just accecpts upper case, to use
lower case you need some tricks that I can't even remember ;-), and
almost all text based interface forces upper case.

see you !

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Alexandre Benson Smith
Development
THOR Software e Comercial Ltda.
Santo Andre - Sao Paulo - Brazil
www.thorsoftware.com.br



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