toupper

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< c‎ | string‎ | byte
Defined in header <ctype.h>
int toupper( int ch );

Converts the given character to uppercase according to the character conversion rules defined by the currently installed C locale.

In the default "C" locale, the following uppercase letters abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz are replaced with respective lowercase letters ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.

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[edit] Parameters

ch - character to be converted. If the value of ch is not representable as unsigned char and does not equal EOF, the behavior is undefined.

[edit] Return value

Uppercase version of ch or unmodified ch if no uppercase version is listed in the current C locale.

[edit] Example

#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <locale.h>
 
int main()
{
    unsigned char c = '\xb8'; // the character Ž in ISO-8859-15
                              // but ´ (acute accent) in ISO-8859-1 
    unsigned char c2 = c;   // for printing
    setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_US.iso88591");
    printf("in iso8859-1, toupper('0x%x') gives 0x%x\n", c2, toupper(c));
    setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_US.iso885915");
    printf("in iso8859-15, toupper('0x%x') gives 0x%x\n", c2, toupper(c));
}

Output:

in iso8859-1, toupper('0xb8') gives 0xb8
in iso8859-15, toupper('0xb8') gives 0xb4

[edit] See also

converts a character to lowercase
(function)
converts a wide character to uppercase
(function)
C++ documentation for toupper