toupper and tolower implementation for whole c-strings

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By Mathias Van Malderen on May 22nd, 2009 4:48 pm

This is a toupper and tolower implementation for whole c-strings, without making use of the existing toupper and tolower functions for characters :)

example:

char s[]="Hello, beautiful world!";
stoupper(s); // s now contains: `HELLO, BEAUTIFUL WORLD!´
stolower(s); // s now contains: `hello, beautiful world!´

/**
@author: Mathias Van Malderen (tux4life)
*/

void stoupper(char *s)
{
    for(; *s; s++)
        if(('a' <= *s) && (*s <= 'z'))
            *s = 'A' + (*s - 'a');
}

void stolower(char *s)
{
    for(; *s; s++)
        if(('A' <= *s) && (*s <= 'Z'))
            *s = 'a' + (*s - 'A');
}

3 Years Ago

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Shorter, but perhaps not any more efficient.

void stoupper(char *s) {
  do if (96 == (224 & *s)) *s &= 223;
  while (*s++);
}

Wow, I'm competitive. No doubt there's some mistake in mine though.

Here's how it works:

the first lowercase letter 'a' has a binary of: 01100001
the last lowercase letter 'z' has a binary of: 01111010

Both these letters have 01100000 in common.
But if the bit 10000000 is on, then it cant be a letter.

So by doing an AND check with 11100000 and comparing (==) it with the value 01100000, it should determine whether or not the character is a valid lowercase letter.

Then remove the bit 00100000 to make the character a capital.

Am I good or what? :D

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3 Years Ago

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Works only for ASCII. Your résumé will be uppercased to RéSUMé or bungle the e with accent. Nice, isn't it?

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3 Years Ago

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Obviously only works with ascii and doesn't support unicode, otherwise char* would have been used. Either way, using the toupper function there outputs: RÚSUMÚ for me (even though it's most probably just a font problem). I would rather it printed RéSUMé :] Both these codes simply turn any characters between 'a' to 'z' and makes them uppercase.

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Hi, naply, take a look at this and you'll see that toupper only converts alphabet letters to uppercase (this is analog for tolower), I intended my code to do 'exactly' the same :)

WH>Am I good or what?
Yes, you're the best :P

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Or just use XOR 32 to swap the values of a valid range. Ta-da...

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