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• Getting Started

• User's Guide

• Desktop Tools and Development Environment

• Data Import and Export

• Mathematics

• Data Analysis

• Programming and Data Types

• Data Type Conversion

• Operators and Special Characters

• Description of Strings in MATLAB

• String Creation

• String Identification

• String Manipulation

• String Parsing

• String Evaluation

• String Comparison

• Bit-Wise Operations

• Logical Operations

• Relational Operations

• Set Operations

• Date and Time Operations

• Programming in MATLAB

• Object-Oriented Programming

• 3-D Visualization

• GUI Development

• External Interfaces

• Release Notes

lower - Convert string to lowercase

Syntax

t = lower('str') B = lower(A)

Description

t = lower('str') returns the string formed by converting any uppercase characters in str to the corresponding lowercase characters and leaving all other characters unchanged.

B = lower(A) when A is a cell array of strings, returns a cell array the same size as A containing the result of applying lower to each string within A.

Examples

lower('MathWorks') is mathworks.

Tips

Character sets supported:

PC: Latin-1 for the Microsoft Windows operating system
Other: ISO Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1)

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