[doc] Method results
Erik Mueller-Harder
lists at praxisworks.com
Thu Aug 7 21:24:19 CDT 2003
Hi, again, Ruslan --
The Valentain Database Kernel manual states this (page 32):
Method result can be of any supported Field type (except
BLOB types).
I have a VText field ("foo") that I want to render as lowercase, purely for case-insensitive searching purposes.
Just for the heck of it, I created a VText field ("bar") with the method "Lower(foo)". It seems to work fine: if I create a record in VAPP and populate foo, bar contains a lowercase version of it.
Is this supported? Can I depend on it? If not, would there be anything else I could do to achieve quick case-insensitive searching of a VText field that may often have more than 64KB (other than creating another field an populating it programmatically with a lowercase version of the same data -- I'd really rather not double my space requirements!)?
Thanks for your guidance,
Erik
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