std:: toupper

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

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 char s (or signed char s), 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

#include <cctype>
#include <climits>
#include <clocale>
#include <iostream>
#include <ranges>
 
int main()
{
    for (auto bd{0}; unsigned char lc : std::views::iota(0, UCHAR_MAX))
        if (unsigned char uc = std::toupper(lc); uc != lc)
            std::cout << lc << uc << (13 == ++bd ? '\n' : ' ');
    std::cout << "\n\n";
 
    unsigned char c = '\xb8'; // the character ž 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';
}

aA bB cC dD eE fF gG hH iI jJ kK lL mM
nN oO pP qQ rR sS tT uU vV wW xX yY zZ
 
in iso8859-1, toupper('0xb8') gives 0xb8
in iso8859-15, toupper('0xb8') gives 0xb4

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