NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

     tolower -- upper case to lower case letter conversion

LIBRARY    [Toc]    [Back]

     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

     #include <ctype.h>

     int
     tolower(int c);

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

     The tolower() function converts an upper-case letter to the corresponding
     lower-case letter.  For single C chars locales (see multibyte(3)) the
     value of the argument is representable as an unsigned char or the value
     of EOF.

RETURN VALUES    [Toc]    [Back]

     If the argument is an upper-case letter, the tolower() function returns
     the corresponding lower-case letter if there is one; otherwise the argument
 is returned unchanged.

COMPATIBILITY    [Toc]    [Back]

     Although tolower() accepts arguments outside of the range of the unsigned
     char type in locales with large character sets, this is a 4.4BSD extension
 and the towlower() function should be used instead for maximum
     portability.

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

     ctype(3), islower(3), multibyte(3), towlower(3)

STANDARDS    [Toc]    [Back]

     The tolower() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9899:1990 (``ISO C89'').


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