_tolower — transliterate uppercase characters to lowercase
Contents
Application Usage
Applications should use the tolower() function instead of the obsolescent _tolower() function.
Copyright
Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard
for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base
Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
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IEEE/The Open Group 2017 _TOLOWER(3POSIX)
Description
The _tolower() macro shall be equivalent to tolower(c) except that the application shall ensure that the
argument c is an uppercase letter.
Errors
No errors are defined.
Thefollowingsectionsareinformative.Examples
None.
Future Directions
The _tolower() function may be removed in a future version.
Name
_tolower — transliterate uppercase characters to lowercase
Prolog
This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface
may differ (consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface
may not be implemented on Linux.
Rationale
None.
Return Value
Upon successful completion, _tolower() shall return the lowercase letter corresponding to the argument
passed.
See Also
tolower(), isupper()
The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, Chapter7, Locale, <ctype.h>Synopsis
#include <ctype.h>
int _tolower(int c);
