MATLAB Function Reference

upper

Convert string to uppercase

Syntax

• t  = upper('str')
  B = upper(A)
  

Description

t = upper('str') converts any lowercase characters in the string str to the corresponding uppercase characters and leaves all other characters unchanged.

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

Examples

upper('attention!') is ATTENTION!.

Remarks

Character sets supported:

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

See Also

lower

unzip

urlread

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