NAME

toupper, toupper_l — lower case to upper case letter conversion

LIBRARY

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

#include <ctype.h>

int
toupper(int c);

int
toupper_l(int c, locale_t loc);

DESCRIPTION

The toupper() and toupper_l() functions convert a lower-case letter to the corresponding upper-case letter. The argument must be representable as an unsigned char or the value of EOF.

The toupper_l() function takes an explicit locale argument, whereas the toupper() function uses the current global or per-thread locale.

RETURN VALUES

If the argument is a lower-case letter, the toupper() and toupper_l() functions return the corresponding upper-case letter if there is one; otherwise, the argument is returned unchanged.

COMPATIBILITY

The 4.4BSD extension of accepting arguments outside of the range of the unsigned char type in locales with large character sets is considered obsolete and may not be supported in future releases. The towupper() or towupper_l() function should be used instead.

SEE ALSO

ctype(3), ctype_l(3), isupper(3), isupper_l(3), towupper(3), towupper_l(3), xlocale(3)

STANDARDS

The toupper() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9899:1990 (“ISO C90”).