Advantage Concepts
Advantage Expression Engine function that converts uppercase characters to lowercase
LOWER(<cString>) à cLowerString
<cString> A character string to be converted to lowercase.
LOWER() returns a copy of <cString> with all alphabetic characters converted to lowercase. All other characters remain the same as in the original string.
LOWER() is a character function that converts uppercase and mixed case strings to lowercase. It is related to UPPER() which converts lowercase and mixed case strings to uppercase.
LOWER() can be used to normalize strings for case-independent comparison or indexing purposes.
Note Advantage Expression Engine functions can be used in expressions such as record filter expressions and index expressions. They are not necessarily scalars supported within SQL statements. For a list of supported SQL scalar functions, see Supported Scalar Functions.
Note Memo, binary, and image fields are not supported in this Advantage Expression Engine function. If memo, binary, or image fields are used with this expression engine function, the Advantage Expression Engine will be unable to evaluate the expression.