[erlang-questions] Case-insensitive matching in mnesia and erlang

[Gleb Peregud]

May you share with us the fastest way? :)

On 10/17/08, Christian <chsu79@REDACTED> wrote:
> You convert your key to either all uppercase (or lowercase) on
> inserting the record, then you do the same conversion on the key used
> on lookup. This is the faster way. Not the fastest.
>
>> I had the following question - I'm storing string data in an mnesia
>> database as either a list of integers or as binaries. I want to find
>> records using case-insensitive matching against this field. How would I
>> use  mnesia:select to do this? Do I have to explicitly retrieve each
>> record and convert the field and seach key to lower case myself and
>> compare? Is there a faster way?
>>
>> /Ashok
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