Thread: to lower or to upper that is the question!

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    No, the reason is that the upper case part is only called if the first character of the string is lowercase.
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    >No, the reason is that the upper case part is only called if the first character of the string is lowercase.
    I'm referring to this in the original post:
    s22 "BaLLooN" String Length: 7
    Lower Case:
    büllÅÅn
    Upper Case:

    t22 "BaLLooN" String Length: 7
    Lower Case:
    büllÅÅn
    Upper Case:

    u22 "BaLLooN" String Length: 7
    Lower Case:
    büllÅÅn
    Upper Case:
    Notice the conspicuous absense of any Upper Case: output.

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    Right, that happens because when this runs:
    Code:
    cout << "Upper Case: "<< m_lower<< endl;
    m_lower points to the null terminator. Then, when this runs:
    Code:
    if(islower (*m_upper))
    it is false because *m_upper is 'B' which is not lowercase, so the for loop does not get run to convert to uppercase, as CornedBee mentioned.

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    >it is false because *m_upper is 'B' which is not lowercase
    Ah yes, I see now.

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    Re: More issues!!!

    I have another problem...

    I have an overloaded << operator that won't work with external ofstream csis(csis is just a text file)...the errror I"m getting is:

    c:\documents and settings\hp_administrator\my documents\visual studio 2005\projects\stringstuff\case.cpp(62) : error C2678: binary '<<' : no operator found which takes a left-hand operand of type 'std:fstream' (or there is no acceptable conversion)

    my simple little function looks like this:

    Code:
    ostream& operator<<(ostream& os, String& str)
    {
    	os << str.getBuf() << endl;
    	return os;
    }
    where the declaration is:

    friend ostream& operator<<(ostream&, const String& str);


    Anyone?? Anyone??? I have not the slightest clue.... I hope that's enough information too::

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