_tolower

Converts an uppercase character to lowercase.

Format

#include  <ctype.h>

int _tolower  (int character);

Argument

character
This argument must be an uppercase letter.

Description

The _tolower macro is equivalent to the tolower function except that its argument must be an uppercase letter (not lowercase, not EOF).

The _tolower macro should not be used with arguments that contain side-effect operations. For instance, the following example will not return the expected result:

d = _tolower (c++);

Return Value
The lowercase letter corresponding to the argument. 


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