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Article #867Re: problem report of toupper() in GCC 1.42 on VMS
From: Bob Pasker
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:16
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:16
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carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) writes: >In article <1993Jan22.171257.28021@netcom.com>, rbp@netcom.com (Bob Pasker) writes: >=GNU_CC_INCLUDE:[000000]ctype.h has the following utterly useless >=definition of toupper(): >= #define toupper(c) ((c)-'a'+'A') >It's not totally useless. It simply must always be used in conjunction with >islower(). E.g., > c = islower(c) ? toupper(c) : c; sorry, yes, you're right. its useful if you have a penchant for a function that subtracts 32. -- -- -- bob pasker -- rbp@netcom.com --
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Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help,comp.os.vms Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!sdd.hp.com!nigel.msen.com!hela.iti.org!cs.widener.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!rbp From: rbp@netcom.com (Bob Pasker) Subject: Re: problem report of toupper() in GCC 1.42 on VMS Message-ID: <1993Jan23.181600.2106@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <1993Jan22.171257.28021@netcom.com> <1jq415INNhrv@gap.caltech.edu> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:16:00 GMT Lines: 19