UPPER()

Advantage Concepts

Advantage Expression Engine function that converts lowercase characters to uppercase

Syntax

UPPER(<cString>) à cUpperString

Parameters

<cString>  The character string to be converted.

Return Values

UPPER() returns a copy of <cString> with all alphabetical characters converted to uppercase. All other characters remain the same as in the original string.

Remarks

UPPER() is a character function that converts lowercase and mixed case strings to uppercase. It is related to LOWER() which converts uppercase and mixed case strings to lowercase.

UPPER() 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.

See Also

LOWER()