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TOLOWER(3)		 BSD Library Functions Manual		    TOLOWER(3)

NAME
     tolower --	upper case to lower case letter	conversion

LIBRARY
     Standard C	Library	(libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <ctype.h>

     int
     tolower(int c);

DESCRIPTION
     The tolower() function converts an	upper-case letter to the corresponding
     lower-case	letter.	 For single C chars locales (see multibyte(3)) the
     value of the argument is representable as an unsigned char	or the value
     of	EOF.

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	argu-
     ment is returned unchanged.

SEE ALSO
     isalnum(3), isalpha(3), isascii(3), iscntrl(3), isdigit(3), isgraph(3),
     islower(3), isprint(3), ispunct(3), isspace(3), isupper(3), isxdigit(3),
     multibyte(3), stdio(3), toascii(3), toupper(3), ascii(7)

STANDARDS
     The tolower() function conforms to	ISO/IEC	9899:1990 ("ISO	C90").

BSD				 June 4, 1993				   BSD
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