================================================ Exercise 2.10 - upper case letters to lower case ================================================ Question ======== Rewrite the function lower, which converts upper case letters to lower case, with a conditional expression instead of if-else. .. literalinclude:: cprogs/ex_2.10_lowercondit.c :language: c Explanation =========== In this program we are going to convert upper case letters to lower case. We declare a function called lower in the beginning of the program. When the program enters the while loop it each character it gets to lower:: while((c=getchar())!=EOF) { putchar(lower(c)); } The lower function checks for all the uppercase characters and prints everything in the lowercase. It does this by a conditional statement, where if a upper case character is found, it subtracts 'A' to get relative index, adds it to 'a' to return corresponding smaller case character, if a lower case character is found, it is simply returned:: return c>='A' && c<='Z'? c+'a'-'A':c;