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&IS-LOWER

Examines an argument and returns 1 if the variable value contains lower case characters only; otherwise, returns 0.

Restriction: This topic applies only when the AppMaster Builder AddPack has been installed, and applies only to Windows platforms.

Syntax:

&IS-LOWER (&variablename)

Aliases:

&is-lower (&variablename)     &Is-Lower (&variablename)
&islower (&variablename)      &IsLower (&variablename)
&ISLOWER (&variablename)

Comment:

If &variablename is a numeric type, &IS-LOWER returns 0.

Examples:

&IS-LOWER ("ABC")         = 0
&IS-LOWER ("abc")         = 1
&IS-LOWER ("abc%")        = 0
&IS-LOWER ("AbCd")        = 0
&IS-LOWER ("123A")        = 0
&IS-LOWER ("")            = 0
&IS-LOWER (123)           = 0