std::toupper

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

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 unsignedchar nor equal to EOF. To use these functions safely with plain chars (or signedchars), the argument should first be converted to unsignedchar:

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 signedchar. Instead, convert the value to unsignedchar 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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