Convert a String In C++ To Upper Case

Question

How could one convert a string to upper case. The examples I have found from googling only have to deal with chars.

Answer 1

typedef std::string::value_type char_t;

char_t up_char( char_t ch )
{
    return std::use_facet< std::ctype< char_t > >( std::locale() ).toupper( ch );
}

std::string toupper( const std::string &src )
{
    std::string result;
    std::transform( src.begin(), src.end(), std::back_inserter( result ), up_char );
    return result;
}

const std::string src  = "test test TEST";

std::cout << toupper( src );