>My question is about string comparing functions in Visual Foxpro 5:
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>I need to compare character variables with both binary and character contents. After several dreamless nights of debugging i realised, that for example:
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>chr(7) = chr(8) ...
>'b' = 'B' but 'B' 'b'
>'ß' = 'S' (ß - german sharp s chr(223)) but "ßx' 'Sx'
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>... and so on. Please ... help me if you know. Thanks.
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>Stephen Adams, Czech Republic, stadamec@cbnet.cz
I'm not sure I fully understand, but check the help file for SET COLLATE and the related material on code pages.
George
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