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Portability: | ISO/ANSI C conforming, UNIX compatible |
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SYNOPSIS |
#include <ctype.h> int tolower(int c);
DESCRIPTION |
tolower
translates an uppercase character to the corresponding lowercase character.
The argument must either be a
char
value
or
EOF
. The mapping of uppercase to lowercase
characters is locale dependent.
RETURN VALUE |
IMPLEMENTATION |
tolower
is implemented by the compiler as a built-in function, unless you use the
name
tolower
with
#undef
.
EXAMPLE |
#include <ctype.h> #include <stdio.h> #define MAX 40 main() { char *str, *ptr; char input[MAX]; puts("Enter a string of uppercase characters (maximum of 40):"); str = gets(input); ptr = str; /* Translate all uppercase characters in a string to */ /* lowercase characters. */ while (*str) { *str = tolower(*str); /* Increment outside of macro for maximum portability. */ str++; } printf("%s\n", ptr); }
RELATED FUNCTIONS |
islower
,
memlwr
,
strlwr
,
toupper
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