## Copyright (C) 1998 John W. Eaton
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} lower (@var{s})
## Transform all letters in the character string (or cell array of
## character strings) @var{s} to lower case.
## @seealso{upper, tolower, toupper}
## @end deftypefn

## Author: jwe

function retval = lower (s)

  if (nargin != 1)
    usage ("lower (s)");
  endif

  if (ischar (s))
    retval = tolower (s);
  elseif (iscellstr (s))
    retval = cell (size (s));
    for i = 1:(numel (s))
      retval{i} = tolower(s{i});
    endfor
  else
    error ("lower: `s' must be a string or cell array of strings");
  endif

endfunction