The lower-case “requirement” is a legacy of xHTML, which explicitly required it. Plain old HTML on the other hand does not follow the rigid struct requirements of XML, and does not therefore have the fixed requirement for use of case. However developers have tended to stick with lower case as a convention anyway, mainly on … Read more
Smaller still I quite like: rename ‘y/A-Z/a-z/’ * On case insensitive filesystems such as OS X’s HFS+, you will want to add the -f flag: rename -f ‘y/A-Z/a-z/’ *
It’s in the standard library, and that’s the most straight forward way I can see to implement such a function. So yes, just loop through the string and convert each character to lowercase. Something trivial like this: #include <ctype.h> for(int i = 0; str[i]; i++){ str[i] = tolower(str[i]); } or if you prefer one liners, … Read more
The are various ways: POSIX standard tr $ echo “$a” | tr ‘[:upper:]’ ‘[:lower:]’ hi all AWK $ echo “$a” | awk ‘{print tolower($0)}’ hi all Non-POSIX You may run into portability issues with the following examples: Bash 4.0 $ echo “${a,,}” hi all sed $ echo “$a” | sed -e ‘s/\(.*\)/\L\1/’ hi all # … Read more
How to capitalize the first character of each word in a string
Use str.lower(): “Kilometer”.lower()