string.lower(str)

Converts all uppercase characters in a string into lowercase characters.

Parameters

str

The string to be used to produce a string with lowercase characters.

This function will try to convert the string, even for UTF8 characters.

Return value

Returns a new string with the same content but lowercase characters.

Example

local console = require "console" console.write('Enter a word : ') local word = console.readln():lower() print('Here the word in lower characters : '..word)