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Converts the alphabetic characters in a string to lowercase.
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A string, converted to lowercase.
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String functions
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    <td valign="top" colspan="2" class="description"><span class="title">Function syntax</span><pre>LCase(string)
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UCase
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    <td valign="top" colspan="2" class="description"><span class="title">Example</span><pre>&lt;h3&gt;LCase Example&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;cfif IsDefined(&quot;FORM.sampleText&quot;)&gt;
   &lt;cfif FORM.sampleText is not &quot;&quot;&gt;
      &lt;cfoutput&gt;
      &lt;p&gt;Your text, &lt;b&gt;#FORM.sampleText#&lt;/b&gt;, returned in lowercase is 
      &lt;b&gt;#LCase(FORM.sampleText)#&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
   &lt;   /cfoutput&gt; 
   &lt;cfelse&gt;
      &lt;   p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Please enter some text.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
   &lt;/cfif&gt;
&lt;/cfif&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Enter your text. Press &quot;submit&quot; to see it returned in lowercase: &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;form method=&quot;post&quot; action = &quot;&lt;cfoutput&gt;#cgi.script_name#&lt;/cfoutput&gt;&quot; 
name=&quot;lcaseForm&quot;&gt;
&lt;input type = &quot;Text&quot; name = &quot;SampleText&quot; value = &quot;SAMPLE&quot;&gt;
&lt;input type = &quot;Submit&quot; name = &quot;&quot; value = &quot;submit&quot;&gt;
&lt;/form&gt; 
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<p>A string or a variable that contains one</p>

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