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Making search non case sensitive

Former Member — Fri, 29 May 2009 10:53:16 GMT

hi,

I am using the following statement :

SELECT fname 
             FROM z3af_hcp INTO TABLE lt_select_list
                WHERE fname LIKE lv_first_name.

lv_first_name is a variable which contains value something like a%, ab%, A%.

I want a search criteria which is not case sensitive. Plz suggest.

Regards

Pankaj Aggarwal

Re: Making search non case sensitive

Former Member — Fri, 29 May 2009 10:57:19 GMT

firstly dat is dependent upon the domain of the data element.

there is a check box in the domain in the domain which when clicked enables the field as case sensitive.

as i can see u are using a ztable u can very well use a domain of ur choice to make the domain not case sensitive if it case sensitive now.

and if it is not case sensitive then what ever u pass in that variable it will automatically be considered as non case sensitive..

Edited by: soumya prakash mishra on May 29, 2009 12:58 PM

Re: Making search non case sensitive

Former Member — Fri, 29 May 2009 11:04:53 GMT

Hi,

i can not change domain or table .

Re: Making search non case sensitive

Former Member — Fri, 29 May 2009 11:07:42 GMT

hi,

You can use 'CA' comparision operator.

Contains Any: True, if operand1 contains at least one character from operand2. Upper/lower case and trailing blanks are taken into account for both operands.

sample code for your reference.

data:begin of itab OCCURS 0,

matnr type makt-matnr,

maktx type makt-maktx,

end of itab.

select matnr maktx

into table itab

from makt.

loop at itab where maktx ca 'A'.

write 😕 itab-matnr, itab-maktx.

endloop.

hope this solves your issue.

Re: Making search non case sensitive

Former Member — Fri, 29 May 2009 11:10:53 GMT

is the domain case sensitive? please check and let us know first.

in general fname is of domain type : FDNAME

which is not case sensitive... so no need to worry about case as for me

Edited by: soumya prakash mishra on May 29, 2009 1:11 PM

Re: Making search non case sensitive

Former Member — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:02:54 GMT

domain is case sensitive...

plz suggest what i can use except like...

Re: Making search non case sensitive

matt — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:06:38 GMT

It is NOT POSSIBLE in opensql to have non-case sensitive selects. Where SAP have provided functionality that looks like this, they've added a field for searching, which has the contents of the desired fields, in UPPER CASE.

You must add a field to z3af_hcp, e.g. fname_upper, which contains the values in fname but in upper case. You must make sure it is populated.

Then you can use:

TRANSLATE lv_first_name TO UPPER-CASE.
SELECT fname 
             FROM z3af_hcp INTO TABLE lt_select_list
                WHERE fname_upper LIKE lv_first_name.

matt

Edited by: Matt on May 29, 2009 2:09 PM

Re: Making search non case sensitive

Former Member — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:10:21 GMT

hi,

Either remove the tick of case sensitive from domain or can use the sample code given above.

Re: Making search non case sensitive

Former Member — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:52:03 GMT

Depending on your database, you can use native SQL to achieve this directly.

Rob