Php/docs/function.ctype-upper
ctype_upper
(PHP 4 >= 4.0.4, PHP 5, PHP 7)
ctype_upper — Check for uppercase character(s)
Description
ctype_upper
( mixed $text
) : bool
Checks if all of the characters in the provided string,
text
, are uppercase characters.
Parameters
text
The tested string.
Note:
If an int between -128 and 255 inclusive is provided, it is interpreted as the ASCII value of a single character (negative values have 256 added in order to allow characters in the Extended ASCII range). Any other integer is interpreted as a string containing the decimal digits of the integer.
Return Values
Returns TRUE
if every character in text
is
an uppercase letter in the current locale.
Examples
Example #1 A ctype_upper() example (using the default locale)
<?php$strings = array('AKLWC139', 'LMNSDO', 'akwSKWsm');foreach ($strings as $testcase) { if (ctype_upper($testcase)) { echo "The string $testcase consists of all uppercase letters.\n"; } else { echo "The string $testcase does not consist of all uppercase letters.\n"; }}?>
The above example will output:
The string AKLWC139 does not consist of all uppercase letters. The string LMNSDO consists of all uppercase letters. The string akwSKWsm does not consist of all uppercase letters.
See Also
- ctype_alpha() - Check for alphabetic character(s)
- ctype_lower() - Check for lowercase character(s)
- setlocale() - Set locale information