>>I would like vfp5 to be case insensitive for certain comparison operations.
>>Is this possible?
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>You could SET COLLATE TO "General", but that could have other detrimental side effects.

The effects can be limited to that one tag. In the indexing routine, Set Collate to "General" before creating that tag, and then Set Collate to "Machine" for the other tags. Worked like charm in 2.6, and I don't expect it to have changed since.