String search syntax

Hi All,
I would like to know what is the syntax to be used to check if a particular word exists in a sentence. I tried the below, but it is not giving me the desired result. I am checking to see if the word Comp exists in the name & also would like to know is this a case-sensitive search? i.e would Comp be treated differently from comp? if i want the search to check for 'comp' irrespective of the case, how should i do it?
SELECT SINGLE NAME1 FROM KNA1 INTO Y_NAME1
WHERE KUNNR EQ VBRK-KUNRG.
IF Y_NAME1 CA 'Comp'.
Y_TYP_SAL = 'INTERNAL'.
ELSE.
Y_TYP_SAL = 'EXTERNAL'.
ENDIF.

Hi,
To search a character field for a particular pattern, use the SEARCH statement as follows:
SEARCH <c> FOR <str> <options>.
The statement searches the field <c> for <str> starting at position <n1>. If successful, the return code value of SY-SUBRC is set to 0 and SY-FDPOS is set to the offset of the string in the field <c>. Otherwise, SY-SUBRC is set to 4.
<str>----Function
<pattern>--Searches for <pattern> (any sequence of characters).--
Trailing blanks are ignored.
.<pattern>.----
Searches for <pattern>. Trailing blanks are not ignored.
*<pattern>----
A word ending with <pattern> is sought.
<pattern>*----
Searches for a word starting with <pattern>.
Words are separated by blanks, commas, periods, semicolons, colons, question marks, exclamation marks, parentheses, slashes, plus signs, and equal signs.
<option> in the SEARCH FOR statement can be any of the following:
ABBREVIATED
Searches the field <c> for a word containing the string in <str>. The characters can be separated by other characters. The first letter of the word and the string <str> must be
the same.
STARTING AT <n1>
Searches the field <c> for <str> starting at position <n1>. The result SY-FDPOS refers to the offset relative to <n1> and not to the start of the field.
ENDING AT <n2>
Searches the field <c> for <str> up to position <n2>.
AND MARK
If the search string is found, all the characters in the search string (and all the characters in between when using ABBREVIATED) are converted to upper case.
Ex.
DATA STRING(30) VALUE 'This is a little sentence.'.
WRITE: / 'Searched', 'SY-SUBRC', 'SY-FDPOS'.
ULINE /1(26).
SEARCH STRING FOR 'X'.
WRITE: / 'X', SY-SUBRC UNDER 'SY-SUBRC',
SY-FDPOS UNDER 'SY-FDPOS'
SEARCH STRING FOR 'itt '.
WRITE: / 'itt ', SY-SUBRC UNDER 'SY-SUBRC',
SY-FDPOS UNDER 'SY-FDPOS'
SEARCH STRING FOR '.e .'.
WRITE: / '.e .', SY-SUBRC UNDER 'SY-SUBRC',
SY-FDPOS UNDER 'SY-FDPOS'.
SEARCH STRING FOR '*e'.
WRITE: / '*e ', SY-SUBRC UNDER 'SY-SUBRC',
SY-FDPOS UNDER 'SY-FDPOS'.
SEARCH STRING FOR 's*'.
WRITE: / 's* ', SY-SUBRC UNDER 'SY-SUBRC',
SY-FDPOS UNDER 'SY-FDPOS'.
Regards,
Bhaskar

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