std::toupper

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Defined in header <cctype>
int toupper( int ch );

Converts the given character to uppercase according to the character conversion rules defined by the currently installed C locale.

In the default "C" locale, the following lowercase letters abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz are replaced with respective uppercase letters ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.

Parameters

ch

-

character to be converted. If the value of ch is not representable as unsigned char and does not equal EOF, the behavior is undefined.

Return value

Converted character or ch if no uppercase version is defined by the current C locale.

Notes

Like all other functions from <cctype>, the behavior of std::toupper is undefined if the argument's value is neither representable as unsigned char nor equal to EOF. To use these functions safely with plain chars (or signed chars), the argument should first be converted to unsigned char:

char my_toupper(char ch)
{
    return static_cast<char>(std::toupper(static_cast<unsigned char>(ch)));
}

Similarly, they should not be directly used with standard algorithms when the iterator's value type is char or signed char. Instead, convert the value to unsigned char first:

std::string str_toupper(std::string s) {
    std::transform(s.begin(), s.end(), s.begin(), 
                // static_cast<int(*)(int)>(std::toupper)         // wrong
                // [](int c){ return std::toupper(c); }           // wrong
                // [](char c){ return std::toupper(c); }          // wrong
                   [](unsigned char c){ return std::toupper(c); } // correct
                  );
    return s;
}

Example

Run this code

#include <iostream>
#include <cctype>
#include <clocale>

int main()
{
    unsigned char c = '\xb8'; // the character  in ISO-8859-15
                              // but  (cedilla) in ISO-8859-1 

    std::setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_US.iso88591");
    std::cout << std::hex << std::showbase;
    std::cout << "in iso8859-1, toupper('0xb8') gives " << std::toupper(c) << '\n';
    std::setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_US.iso885915");
    std::cout << "in iso8859-15, toupper('0xb8') gives " << std::toupper(c) << '\n';
}

Output:

in iso8859-1, toupper('0xb8') gives 0xb8
in iso8859-15, toupper('0xb8') gives 0xb4

See also

tolower	converts a character to lowercase (function)
toupper(std::locale)	converts a character to uppercase using the ctype facet of a locale (function template)
towupper	converts a wide character to uppercase (function)