toupper

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Returns:
Examples:
History:

# $EPIC: toupper.txt,v 1.2 2006/08/20 17:37:08 sthalik Exp $

Synopsis:

$toupper(<text>)

Technical:

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

Practical:

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

Returns:

<text> converted to ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.

Examples:

$toupper(Hello there.) returns “HELLO THERE.”

History:

This function first appeared in ircII.

toupper.txt · Last modified: 2006/08/29 16:08 (external edit)