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Ignoring case in Delphi field

I'm using the following code in a form that lets users search multiple fields through delphi's filters to find certain records and display them in a grid.

sContractor := '%' + cbContractor.Text + '%';
sStreetName := '%' + edStreet_Name.Text + '%';
sBuyer := '%' + edBuyer.Text + '%';

with gvresults.DataController.Filter do begin
Clear;
Root.BoolOperatorKind := fboAND;

if cbContractor.Text <> '' then AddItem(Root,gvResultsContractor, foLike, sContractor , sContractor);
if edStreet_Name.Text <> '' then AddItem(Root,gvResultsStreet_Name, foLike, sStreetName , sStreetName);
if edBuyer.Text <> '' then AddItem(Root,gvResultsBuyer, foLike, sBuyer , sBuyer);

So far I've worked out how to include 'wildcards' in the search, but I haven't worked out how to make the fields ignore the case of the character string entered by user--I assume it needs to be done when the variables are declared though...

CesarHdez

Hi Prec94513, try applying upper(FIELDNAME) = 'SOMETHING', this will not affect how you display the data on your grid

Hope this works,

Cesar

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ASKER

Hi Cesar.

Where exactly would I put that code in for it to work? I've tried a few ways but none seem to work (though it may be a syntax problem on my part).

Thanks.

CesarHdez

Hi, for a start you need to convert your compare variables to uppercase

sContractor := '%' + UpperCase(cbContractor.Text) + '%';
sStreetName := '%' + UpperCase(edStreet_Name.Text) + '%';
sBuyer := '%' + UpperCase(edBuyer.Text) + '%';

with gvresults.DataController.Filter do begin
Clear;
Root.BoolOperatorKind := fboAND;

(gvResultsX where do you build it?)

if cbContractor.Text <> '' then AddItem(Root,gvResultsContractor, foLike, sContractor , sContractor);
if edStreet_Name.Text <> '' then AddItem(Root,gvResultsStreet_Name, foLike, sStreetName , sStreetName);
if edBuyer.Text <> '' then AddItem(Root,gvResultsBuyer, foLike, sBuyer , sBuyer);

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CesarHdez

ah, that's even better! nice one

GeneralTackett

easiest way is to uppercase() both sides or upper() or use ansicompare with the ignore case option

auke_t

looking at your sourcecode you're using the Developer Express grid.
In that case briangochnauer answer should work (if you remove the space) if you put it in (for instance) the OnCreate of the form.

gvresults.DataController.Filter.Options := [fcoCaseInsensitive];

You can also set it in during design in the object inspector.

saravananvg

Hi,
As GeneralTackett says, you need to compare it on both sides as follows.

UpperCase(sContractor) := '%' + UpperCase(cbContractor.Text) + '%';
UpperCase(sStreetName) := '%' + UpperCase(edStreet_Name.Text) + '%';
UpperCase(sBuyer) := '%' + UpperCase(edBuyer.Text) + '%';

with regards
Padmaja.

saravananvg

Hi
Sorry, need to compare it on both sides with if statement.

with regards,
Padmaja.

CesarHdez

saravananvg, the code you posted is not actually correct, what Prec94513 is doing there, he is assigning the text on cbContractor to sContractor, so making an UpperCase(sContractor) := '%' .... does not works...

GeneralTackett

you could change the ands for ors if you like.. .or any combination given that you put parenthesis around the sections accordingly...

if ( (UpperCase(sContractor) ) =( '%' + UpperCase(cbContractor.Text) + '%')) and
( UpperCase(sStreetName) )=( '%' + UpperCase(edStreet_Name.Text) + '%')) and
( UpperCase(sBuyer))=( '%' + UpperCase(edBuyer.Text) + '%'))
then begin
.....
end
else begin
...
end;

auke_t

The original poster is using the Developer Express Quantum Grid as you can see by the '.DataController.Filter' part of the code (google it and you'll see). If you are not familiar with that component chances are that all of your well ment advice is actually making things more difficult, as the filter of that grid has a special property (fcoCaseInsensitive) to ignore case in the filter statement.

Setting that property will solve all the OPs problems.

From the helpfile:

Unit
cxFilter

TcxFilterCriteriaOption = (fcoCaseInsensitive, fcoShowOperatorDescription, fcoSoftNull, fcoSoftCompare, fcoIgnoreNull);

Description
The TcxFilterCriteriaOption represents an enumeration of values that control data filtering. The following table describes the possible options. Filter options are supported by the TcxFilterCriteria.Options property.

Value      Meaning

fcoCaseInsensitive      Specifies whether filtering is case sensitive. When this flag is active in the TcxFilterCriteria.Options property, filtering does not distinguish upper and lowercase characters.

fcoShowOperatorDescription      If set, replaces operator symbols with their corresponding text representation.For instance, the ‘=’ operator is replaced with the ‘equals’ string. Operator descriptions are defined in the cxFilterConsts.pas source file.

fcoSoftNull      If set, empty strings are considered as NULL values when comparing.

fcoSoftCompare      If set, no exception is thrown when comparing values of incompatible types.

fcoIgnoreNull      If set, NULL values are ignored when comparing and are excluded from the filtered results.

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