Are strupr() and strlwr() in string.h part of the ANSI standard?

Question

I was looking for this on internet and in every place with the functions of string.h these two are not mentioned.

Is because what? They aren\'t in every compiler?

Answer 1

These functions are not standard, and in fact their signatures are broken/non-usable. You cannot case-map a string in-place in general, because the length may change under case mapping.

Answer 2

These functions are not C standard functions. So it is implementation-defined whether they are supported or not.

Answer 3

They are non-standard functions from Microsoft's C library. MS has since deprecated them in favor of renamed funcitons _strlwr() and _strupr():

• strlwr() doc
• strupr() doc

Note that the MS docs claim they are POSIX functions, but as far as I can tell they never have been.

If you need to use them on a non-MS toolchain, they're easy enough to implement.

char* strlwr(char* s)
{
    char* tmp = s;

    for (;*tmp;++tmp) {
        *tmp = tolower((unsigned char) *tmp);
    }

    return s;
}