On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:16:16 -0800, Kevin Murphy wrote:
>
> I have some text that comes out of a database all in uppercase (old
> IBM Mainframe that only supports uppercase characters).
I see via other followups that you have your kludge working. *But* ,
What do you mean by "old IBM Mainframe that only supports uppercase
characters"? The EBCDIC codes X'81' > X'89' (a-i), X'91' > X'99' (j-r),
and X'A2' > X'A9' (s-z) have been defined and used since probably before
you were born. I have in front of me my first IBM Green Card (IBM
System/360 Reference Data, GX20-1703-3) from 1966 which debunks that
urban legend.
If the data in the mainframe database is all upper case, it was sloppy
programming or sloppy design that got it there. If it _is_ stored in
the mainframe database in proper UC/lc form, then it is probably a
sloppy extraction procedure that is to blame for your input.
Jonesy
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