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Last updated: Thu, 26 Jun 2008

ctype_lower

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.4, PHP 5)

ctype_lower — Check for lowercase character(s)

Description

bool ctype_lower ( string $text )

Checks if all of the characters in the provided string, text , are lowercase letters.

Parameters

text

The tested string.

Return Values

Returns TRUE if every character in text is a lowercase letter in the current locale.

Examples

Example #1 A ctype_lower() example (using the default locale)

<?php
$strings
= array('aac123', 'qiutoas', 'QASsdks');
foreach (
$strings as $testcase) {
   if (
ctype_lower($testcase)) {
       echo
"The string $testcase consists of all lowercase letters.\n";
   } else {
       echo
"The string $testcase does not consist of all lowercase letters.\n";
   }
}
?>

The above example will output:

The string aac123 does not consist of all lowercase letters.
The string qiutoas consists of all lowercase letters.
The string QASsdks does not consist of all lowercase letters.



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