Re: [GENERAL] Case insensitive searches?

Hi!

On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Mike Barnes wrote:
> Hiho ... I'd really like to know if anyone has any good suggestions for
> performing case insensitive searches on data in a 6.3 server using Perl. If
> there's some really obvious solution I'm missing, please club me over the
> head with it.

   Make all things lowercase:
   SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE lower(mycolumn) = 'mylowercasedata'

   For regexp searching use ~* (case insensitive regexp).

> Mike.
>
>

Oleg.
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