tolower

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# $EPIC: tolower.txt,v 1.3 2006/11/19 04:31:10 jnelson Exp $

Synopsis:

$tolower(<text>)

Technical:

This function returns a copy of <text> such that all characters for which isupper(<char>) is true are converted to tolower(<char>).
This function uses the “ISO C89” isupper(3) and tolower(3) functions and as such obey your system's LOCALE settings.

Practical:

Useful to convert all lowercase characters in a string to lowercase.

Returns:

<text> converted to all lowercase letters.

Examples:

$tolower(HELLO THERE.) returns “hello there.”

History:

This function first appeared in ircII.

tolower.txt · Last modified: 2006/11/19 04:31 (external edit)