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#Lower()?

    23-Oct-94 06:28:43
Sb: #43321-#Lower()?
Fm: Alex Gian 100114,3132
To: Syndesis 76004,1763
John I the used the follwing "cute" hack for obtaining a lower(string): BITOR(string) !! this works by exploiting the fact that the BITOR() function defaults to BITORing with the blank, or space caracter " ". This is hex 20 in ASCII, which is also the distance that separates upper and lowercase characters. However, this also means that it *only* works for alphabetic characters and blanks, and will produce garbage for other characters (e.g. %,$,",numbers etc.). So in the long run TRANSLATE() is much more robust. Alex