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From: minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin Minow)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: toupper -- a lesson for programmers
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Date: Fri, 11-Nov-83 18:29:53 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 11 18:29:53 1983
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The behavior of toupper() and tolower() varies across the many
implementations of the C library.  The following strategies
are known to work:

1.	if (isupper(c))
	    c = tolower(c);

2.	#ifdef	tolower
	#undef	tolower
	#define	tolower(c) (whatever you feel is right)

Moral: if you do something wrong, half the people will adapt
to it and the other half will "do it right."

Martin Minow
decvax!minow