Description

Converts the alphabetic characters in a string to lowercase.

Returns

A string, converted to lowercase.

Category

String functions

Function syntax

LCase(string)

See also

UCase

Parameters

Example

<h3>LCase Example</h3>

<cfif IsDefined("FORM.sampleText")>
    <cfif FORM.sampleText is not "">
        <cfoutput>
        <p>Your text, <b>#FORM.sampleText#</b>, returned in lowercase is 
        <b>#LCase(FORM.sampleText)#</b>.</p>
    <    /cfoutput> 
    <cfelse>
        <    p><b><i>Please enter some text.</i></b></p>
    </cfif>
</cfif>

<p>Enter your text. Press "submit" to see it returned in lowercase: </p>

<form method="post" action = "<cfoutput>#cgi.script_name#</cfoutput>" name="lcaseForm">
<input type = "Text" name = "SampleText" value = "SAMPLE">
<input type = "Submit" name = "" value = "submit">
</form>