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TOUPPER(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 						TOUPPER(3)

NAME
toupper -- lower case to upper case letter conversion LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS
#include <ctype.h> int toupper(int c); DESCRIPTION
The toupper() function converts a lower-case letter to the corresponding upper-case letter. RETURN VALUES
If the argument is a lower-case letter, the toupper() function returns the corresponding upper-case letter if there is one; otherwise the argument is returned unchanged. SEE ALSO
ctype(3), isalnum(3), isalpha(3), isascii(3), iscntrl(3), isdigit(3), isgraph(3), islower(3), isprint(3), ispunct(3), isspace(3), isupper(3), isxdigit(3), stdio(3), toascii(3), ascii(7) STANDARDS
The toupper() function conforms to ANSI X3.159-1989 (``ANSI C89''). CAVEATS
The argument to toupper() must be EOF or representable as an unsigned char; otherwise, the behavior is undefined. See the CAVEATS section of ctype(3) for more details. BSD
April 17, 2008 BSD

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CTYPE(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 						  CTYPE(3)

NAME
isalpha, isupper, islower, isdigit, isxdigit, isalnum, isspace, ispunct, isprint, isgraph, iscntrl, isblank, toupper, tolower, -- character classification and mapping functions LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS
#include <ctype.h> isalpha(int c); isupper(int c); islower(int c); isdigit(int c); isxdigit(int c); isalnum(int c); isspace(int c); ispunct(int c); isprint(int c); isgraph(int c); iscntrl(int c); isblank(int c); toupper(int c); tolower(int c); DESCRIPTION
The above functions perform character tests and conversions on the integer c. See the specific manual pages for information about the test or conversion performed by each function. EXAMPLES
To print an upper-case version of a string to stdout, the following code can be used: const char *s = "xyz"; while (*s != '') { putchar(toupper((int)(unsigned char)*s)); s++; } SEE ALSO
isalnum(3), isalpha(3), isblank(3), iscntrl(3), isdigit(3), isgraph(3), islower(3), isprint(3), ispunct(3), isspace(3), isupper(3), isxdigit(3), tolower(3), toupper(3), ascii(7) STANDARDS
These functions, with the exception of isblank(), conform to ANSI X3.159-1989 (``ANSI C89''). All described functions, including isblank(), also conform to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1''). CAVEATS
The first argument of these functions is of type int, but only a very restricted subset of values are actually valid. The argument must either be the value of the macro EOF (which has a negative value), or must be a non-negative value within the range representable as unsigned char. Passing invalid values leads to undefined behavior. Values of type int that were returned by getc(3), fgetc(3), and similar functions or macros are already in the correct range, and may be safely passed to these ctype functions without any casts. Values of type char or signed char must first be cast to unsigned char, to ensure that the values are within the correct range. The result should then be cast to int to avoid warnings from some compilers. Casting a negative-valued char or signed char directly to int will produce a negative-valued int, which will be outside the range of allowed values (unless it happens to be equal to EOF, but even that would not give the desired result). BSD
May 6, 2010 BSD
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