SID-00339: Search stays casesensitive even with casesensitive="off"

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	4.2.0	Perl version:
Category:	CategorySearch	Server OS:		Last update:	17 years ago

I created a search mask to filter the project list of our company. I used a %SEARCH{web="Xxxx" "(form.name= 'ProjectForm') etc. to search the field content of the relevant form. Works fine. The only and crucial error is: the search is casesensitive. I even included casesensitive="off" in the search string. The search remains casesensitive. I need to have a caseinsensitive search as we use company specific tool names and unfortunately people have entered these names sometimes all in capitals.

-- HansPeterWaltisberg - 2009-05-28

Discussion and Answer

TWiki's VarSEARCH is case insensitive by default. There is a casesensitive="on" switch to turn it on.

It looks like something is wrong with your TWiki setup, namely with the {RCS}{EgrepCmd} and {RCS}{FgrepCmd} configure settings. Defaults are as follows:

$TWiki::cfg{RCS}{EgrepCmd} = '/bin/grep -E %CS{|-i}% %DET{|-l}% -H -- %TOKEN|U% %FILES|F%';
$TWiki::cfg{RCS}{FgrepCmd} = '/bin/grep -F %CS{|-i}% %DET{|-l}% -H -- %TOKEN|U% %FILES|F%';

In a QuerySearch, you can compare case insensitive like this: "(lc(form.name) = lc('ProjectForm'))"

-- PeterThoeny - 2009-05-28

thanks. great solution.

-- HansPeterWaltisberg - 2009-06-03

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