NAME

tolower - upper case to lower case letter conversion

LIBRARY

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS



int tolower(int c)

DESCRIPTION

The tolower() function converts an upper-case letter to the corresponding lower-case letter.

RETURN VALUES

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.

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), toupper(3), ascii(7)

STANDARDS

The tolower() function conforms to ANSI X3.159-1989 (``ANSI C89'') .

CAVEATS

The argument to tolower() must be EOF or representable as an otherwise, the behavior is undefined. See the CAVEATS section of ctype(3) for more details.