.\" $NetBSD: toupper.3,v 1.15 2006/10/05 22:34:52 rillig Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1991 The Regents of the University of California. .\" All rights reserved. .\" .\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by .\" the American National Standards Committee X3, on Information .\" Processing Systems. .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions .\" are met: .\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. .\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the .\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. .\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors .\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software .\" without specific prior written permission. .\" .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND .\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE .\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE .\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL .\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS .\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) .\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT .\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" @(#)toupper.3 5.2 (Berkeley) 6/29/91 .\" .Dd December 24, 2004 .Dt TOUPPER 3 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm toupper .Nd lower case to upper case letter conversion .Sh LIBRARY .Lb libc .Sh SYNOPSIS .In ctype.h .Ft int .Fn toupper "int c" .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn toupper function converts a lower-case letter to the corresponding upper-case letter. .Sh RETURN VALUES If the argument is a lower-case letter, the .Fn toupper function returns the corresponding upper-case letter if there is one; otherwise the argument is returned unchanged. .\" In the .\" .Em ``C'' .\" locale, .\" .Fn toupper .\" maps only the characters for which .\" .Xr islower .\" is true to the corresponding characters for which .\" .Xr isupper .\" is true. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr isalnum 3 , .Xr isalpha 3 , .Xr isascii 3 , .Xr iscntrl 3 , .Xr isdigit 3 , .Xr isgraph 3 , .Xr islower 3 , .Xr isprint 3 , .Xr ispunct 3 , .Xr isspace 3 , .Xr isupper 3 , .Xr isxdigit 3 , .Xr stdio 3 , .Xr toascii 3 , .Xr ascii 7 .Sh STANDARDS The .Fn toupper function conforms to .St -ansiC . .Sh CAVEATS The argument to .Fn toupper must be .Dv EOF or representable as an .Li unsigned char ; otherwise, the behavior is undefined.