Ignoring case.................

Question

Hello Experts ,
        I am trybin to read data from infotype table pa0002  . I am accepting  the Last name ( vorna ) as input .
I am trying to fetch matching records in internal table USING SELECT QUERY .
But the name (vorna ) is *case sensitive* so  in table name can be stored as
Rahul
RAHUL
rahul
If user input is RahuL . Query return zero number MATCHING  of records .
My requirement is Query should return all three matching records .
How can i  do the comparison of name to retrive all matching records IGNORING THE CASE .
i tried following query
SELECT PERNR VORNA NACHN GBDAT FROM PA0002
    INTO CORRESPONDING FIELDS OF TABLE ITAB
    WHERE upper( VORNA )   = upper(  STRU_USERIP-VORNA )
    AND   ENDDA >= SY-DATUM
    AND   BEGDA <= SY-DATUM .
But wont work since UPPER is not allowed ,
can anyone provide solution to this problem .
Your Help will be appericiated .
thks ,
Rushi

Answer 1

hi,
There are few ways to ignore case while selecting values :
1. Have all the records in either Capitals or Small Letters in DataBase Table.
2. Have one extra column with either Capitals or Small Letters to do search.
3. Declare Range Tables.
An Example of Ranges :
a. Range declared for which search criteria is there.
Data : lr_name TYPE RANGE OF fmfint-bezeich,
          lr_name_line LIKE LINE OF lr_name.
Data lt_rfc type table of fmfint,
        wa_rfc type fmfint,
        w_output type fmfint,
       t_output type table of fmfint.
b. i_name is the value entered by user in Search Criteria.
if i_name is not initial.
      lr_name_line-sign = 'I'.
        lr_name_line-option = 'CP'.
        lr_name_line-low = i_name.
APPEND lr_name_line to lr_name.
ENDIF.
c. Select all records.
select * from fmfint into table lt_rfc.
d. Filter records using Loop and where condition
loop at lt_rfc into wa_rfc where
bezeich IN lr_name.
MOVE-CORRESPONDING lw_rfc TO w_output.
        APPEND w_output TO t_output.
        CLEAR: w_output,lw_rfc.
endloop.
now finally you have all records based on input entered in table t_output.