Built-In Functions and Syntax › Lowercase

Lowercase

Returns the string that results from converting all characters to lowercase.

Syntax:

►►─── TOLOWER (string) ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────►◄

Invocation names:

TOLOWER

Parameters:

string

Specifies the string value on which the lowercase function is performed.

String can be:

• A string literal, enclosed in single quotation marks
• The name of a user-defined variable data field containing the string

Example:

In the example below, the lowercase function is used to convert all characters in the last name to lowercase:

Initial value:
    EMP-LNAME:  'LANCHESTER         '
Statement:
    compute new-emp-lname = tolower(emp-lname)
Returned string:
    'lanchester         '