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**NOCASE**

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The **NOCASE** attribute (PROP:NOCASE) of a BREAK structure in a REPORT declaration makes the comparison for detecting a changed value (indicating a group break) insensitive to the ASCII upper/lower case sorting convention. All characters in the break field and the saved comparison value are converted to upper case before the comparison. This case conversion has no affect on the case of the stored data. The NOCASE attribute has no effect on non-alphabetic characters.

**Example:**

**Report REPORT**

**        BREAK(BreakVariable),NOCASE  !Case insensitive group break**

**         HEADER**

**          STRING(@n4),USE(BreakVariable)**

**         END**

**Detail   DETAIL**

**          STRING(@n4),USE(SomeField)**

**         END**

**        END**

**       END**

**See Also:**

[[break  declare group break structure .htm|BREAK]]