Name

lower — convert a string to lower case

Synopsis

string lower(str);
string str;

Description

Returns str with all upper case characters converted to lower case.

Example 38. lower Example

// A function to perform a case insensitive comparison by converting both
// strings to lower case and then comparing
function strcmp(string s1, string s2)
{
    s1 = lower(s1);
    s2 = lower(s2);
    if(s1 == s2)
        return 0;
    else if(s1 < s2)
        return -1;
    else
        return 1;
}

See Also

This function complements the upper() function.