From: Garrett Mitchener <wgm2@acpub.duke.edu>
  To  : 
  Date: 11 Feb 1999 12:39:18 -0500

Re: tolower & other useful string functions....

Michael Abernethy <mna@duke.edu> writes:

>  I've looked through the STL and not found anything.
>  I think writing the functions yourself wouldn't be that difficult.  
> 
>  something like
> 
>  void lowercase(string & str)
>  {
>   int i;
>   for (i=0; i<str.size(); i++)
>       {
>        if (str[i] < 'a')
>            str[i] = str[i] +('a' - 'A');
>       }
>  }
> 
> > 

You might prefer to use the character conversion functions in
<ctype.h>  They are portable to non-ASCII character sets and accented
characters, etc.

	-- Garrett :-)