MATLAB Function Reference

lower

Convert string to lowercase

Syntax

• t = lower('str')
  B = lower(A)
  

Description

t = lower('str') returns the string formed by converting any uppercase characters in str to the corresponding lowercase characters and leaving all other characters unchanged.

B = lower(A) when A is a cell array of strings, returns a cell array the same size as A containing the result of applying lower to each string within A.

Examples

lower('MathWorks') is mathworks.

Remarks

Character sets supported:

• PC: Windows Latin-1
• Other: ISO Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1)

See Also

upper

lookfor

ls

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