Case sensitivity

Hi,

Z F writes:
 > Anyway, it seems to me that when a comparison of text field is made
 > with ~ (or probably with ^ and $) the comparison should not be case
 > sensitive. That is if I search with
 > 
 > :TI:~basing
 > 
 > I should get enteries containing "basing" and "BaSinG" on the output.
 > I think it would greately improve the search.
 > 
 > THis is done for some of fields (AU for example) but for the title it
 > is not. I would think, searches of alphanumeric fields should be case
 > insensitive. One may argue that even = and != operations should not
 > be case sensitive.
 > 

RefDB relies entirely on the database engine for queries. If the
engine does regexp comparisons in a case-sensitive fashion, then RefDB
does the same. If you badly need one particular behaviour, you
may get closer by switching to a different engine. Some more
background can be found here:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=9292940

regards,
Markus

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