Hello David!

Wednesday February 22 1995, David Noon writes to John Poltorak:

 JP>> I asked this in OS2REXX but everyone there seems to have gone
 JP>> home...
 JP>>
 JP>> Is there a way to ignore case when comparing variables?
 JP>> (without parse upper..)

 DN> Try:
 DN>       IF TRANSLATE(String_1) == TRANSLATE(String_2) THEN

This doesn't actually ignore case, but converts everything to upper case. I
thought that the '==' operator might do this, but apparently not.

 DN> BTW, some of us are trying to revitalise the OS2REXX echo. We hope to
 DN> get it onto the Fido backbone, so the number of messages will
 DN> increase.
 DN> At present, I am answering any such posts as this one (as I can) in the
 DN> OS2REXX echo.

Did you see this msg from me in the OS2REXX echo in the last few weeks - if
not my links may not be correctly set up...

John

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