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**LOWER(**//string//**)**

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| **LOWER** | Converts a string to all lower case. |
| //string// | A string constant, variable, or expression for the //string// to be converted. |

The **LOWER** procedure returns a string with all letters converted to lower case.

| **Return Data Type:** | STRING |

**Example:**

** !LOWER('ABC') returns 'abc'**

**Name = SUB(Name,1,1) & LOWER(SUB(Name,2,19))**

** !Make the rest of the name lower case**

**See Also:**

[[upper  return upper case .htm|UPPER]]

[[isupper  return upper case character .htm|ISUPPER]]

[[islower  return lower case character .htm|ISLOWER]]