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C toupper()
The toupper() function converts a lowercase alphabet to
an uppercase alphabet.

The function prototype of the toupper() function is:

int toupper(int ch);

toupper() Parameters
The function takes a single argument.

• ch - a character

Return value from toupper()

If an argument passed to toupper() is

• a lowercase character, the function returns its

corresponding uppercase character

• an uppercase character or a non-alphabetic

character, the function the character itself

The toupper() function is defined in the <ctype.h> (/c-

programming/library-function/ctype.h) header file.

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Example: C toupper() function

#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctype.h>
int main() {
char c;

c = 'm';
printf("%c -> %c", c, toupper(c));

c = 'D';
printf("\n%c -> %c", c, toupper(c));

c = '9';
printf("\n%c -> %c", c, toupper(c));
return 0;
}

Output

m -> M
D -> D
9 -> 9

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