Why is tolower behave different???
Warren Tucker
wht at n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US
Tue Jul 24 06:29:38 AEST 1990
>>>Finally, it dawned on me that the function call tolower was to blame.
>>>On the VAX, the call did nothing if the char was already lowercase, while
>>>the Sun converted it anyway.
System 5-derived tolower() absolutely coverts, while BSD
does the equivalent
if isupper(ch) convert
ANSI aside, I'll always code
if(isupper(ch))
ch = tolower(ch);
to be safe.
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