Diane,
Dictionaries to change case are great if you are searching on a
specific field. I think Laura's issue relates to searching the entire
text of a record.
- Chuck "Putting Words In Laura's Mouth Even Though She Can Speak
For Herself Since 2004" Barouch
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Isn't that really more of a data issue though, rather than a programming issue?
I absolutely believe that data should be stored in U/L case, but that doesn't
affect the programming at all. For searching on this data, we just use
dictionaries that put it in all upper case - very easy to search on.
-Dianne
Quoting Laura Hirsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I think that the upper/lower case issue -- albeit not a show stopper for
anyone - is "much worse than that".
Besides the "internal" back-n-forth about programming in basic, and what
case should be "current", I think that a bigger issue revolves around data
presentation and converting to a "modern" display and "modern" usage.
For example, reports, mailing labels, "Dear John" letters... I mean, as a
programmer, I can use MCU - that works great, MCL - not as useful, but,
still works as documented. MCT? It's embarrassing. Dr. Mark Jones, MD is
almost impossible to return. Mark Jones III - allows me to send a "state of
the art" letter addressed to "Mark Jones Iii".
SEARCH is another of my pet peeves. It should be *smart enough* to figure
out, or at least provide an option to be case insensitive. Maybe it does,
and I'm not aware. But it just always seemed crazy. So, I search - string?
"MARK JONES" then "Mark Jones" then "Mark jones" then "mark jones".
BTREES? Although some may disagree, Mark Jones and MARK JONES are the same
thing - at least in our business environment.
I think that if we want to work in a world that doesn't shout at us all the
time, then we need to look beyond how to write a basic program
That's my $.02 (hey, what happened to the "cent" character... it used to be
there... I know it was... oh, maybe that was on the typewriters that didn't
allow lower case)
Laura
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mats Carlid
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 6:23 AM
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject: Re: [U2] Upper Case Only
One reason for why the upper case only thing started that has been mentioned
in this thread is that some early terminals didn't have lower case.
This is indeed true but it used to be much worse than that !
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