>On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 07:09:26PM -0600, Paul DuBois wrote:
>>
>> Ah, argh. This happens because REGEXP was changed to be case insensitive
>> as of MySQL 3.23.4.
>
>Why?
>
>Jeremy
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Many people wanted it that way. I forget why. I guess because you can
force it to be case sensitive now using BINARY, but before there wasn't
a good way to make it case INsensitive if you wanted it to be, at least
not without writing some really ugly patterns.
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