UPPER$
Syntax |
UPPER$ (string$) |
Location |
TinyToolkit, Function (DIY Toolkit - Vol R) |
This function takes the given string and converts any lower case letters to capitals and then returns the whole string. Normally, only the ASCII alphabet is catered for, which means that no national characters are converted, ie. the function only works with A..Z and a..z.
The DIY Toolkit version will cope with accented characters, but you may have to modify the source code in order for this function to work with some international character sets which use an extended alphabet.
Example
This is not quite an example for UPPER$ but a replacement which converts all characters where an upper character is available:
100 DEFine FuNction UPPER_$ (string$)
110 LOCal i,c,u,u$: u$=""
120 FOR i=1 TO LEN(string$)
130 c=CODE(string$(i)): u=c
140 SELect ON c=97 TO 122: u=c-32:=128 TO 139: u=c+32
150 u$=u$ & CHR$(u)
160 END FOR i
170 RETurn u$
180 END DEFine UPPER_$
CROSS-REFERENCE
UPC$ returns the same as UPPER$. See also ConvCASE$ and LOWER$.