DOWNSHIFT
Assign the DOWNSHIFT attribute to a character field when you want INFORMIX-4GL
to convert uppercase letters entered by the user to lowercase letters, both on
the screen and in the corresponding program variable.
field-tag is the field tag that you declared in the SCREEN section.
Because uppercase and lowercase letters have different ASCII values, storing
character strings in one or the other format can simplify sorting and querying a
database.
By specifying the DOWNSHIFT attribute, you instruct INFORMIX-4GL to convert
character input data to lowercase letters in the program variable.
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