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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

upper - Convert string to uppercase

Syntax

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

Description

t = upper('str') converts any lowercase characters in the string str to the corresponding uppercase characters and leaves all other characters unchanged.

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

Examples

upper('attention!') is ATTENTION!.

Tips

Character sets supported:

PC: Windows Latin-1
Other: ISO Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1)

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