我写了一个模板版本，适用于任何字符串:

#include <type_traits> // std::decay
#include <ctype.h>    // std::toupper & std::tolower


template <class T = void> struct farg_t { using type = T; };
template <template<typename ...> class T1, 
class T2> struct farg_t <T1<T2>> { using type = T2*; };
//---------------

template<class T, class T2 = 
typename std::decay< typename farg_t<T>::type >::type>
void ToUpper(T& str) { T2 t = &str[0]; 
for (; *t; ++t) *t = std::toupper(*t); }


template<class T, class T2 = typename std::decay< typename 
farg_t<T>::type >::type>
void Tolower(T& str) { T2 t = &str[0]; 
for (; *t; ++t) *t = std::tolower(*t); }

用gcc编译器测试:

#include <iostream>
#include "upove_code.h"

int main()
{

    std::string str1 = "hEllo ";
    char str2 [] = "wOrld";

    ToUpper(str1);
    ToUpper(str2);
    std::cout << str1 << str2 << '\n'; 
    Tolower(str1);
    Tolower(str2);
    std::cout << str1 << str2 << '\n'; 
    return 0;
}

输出:

>HELLO WORLD
>
>hello world

Boost为此提供了一个字符串算法:

#include <boost/algorithm/string.hpp>

std::string str = "HELLO, WORLD!";
boost::algorithm::to_lower(str); // modifies str

或者，对于非原位:

#include <boost/algorithm/string.hpp>

const std::string str = "HELLO, WORLD!";
const std::string lower_str = boost::algorithm::to_lower_copy(str);

另一种方法是使用带参考变量的基于范围的for循环

string test = "Hello World";
for(auto& c : test)
{
   c = tolower(c);
}

cout<<test<<endl;

为ASCII字符串to_lower添加了一些可选库，它们都是生产级的，并进行了微优化，预计会比这里现有的答案更快(TODO:添加基准测试结果)。

Facebook的愚蠢:

void toLowerAscii(char* str, size_t length)

谷歌的绳降：

void AsciiStrToLower(std::string* s);

我写了一个模板版本，适用于任何字符串:

#include <type_traits> // std::decay
#include <ctype.h>    // std::toupper & std::tolower


template <class T = void> struct farg_t { using type = T; };
template <template<typename ...> class T1, 
class T2> struct farg_t <T1<T2>> { using type = T2*; };
//---------------

template<class T, class T2 = 
typename std::decay< typename farg_t<T>::type >::type>
void ToUpper(T& str) { T2 t = &str[0]; 
for (; *t; ++t) *t = std::toupper(*t); }


template<class T, class T2 = typename std::decay< typename 
farg_t<T>::type >::type>
void Tolower(T& str) { T2 t = &str[0]; 
for (; *t; ++t) *t = std::tolower(*t); }

用gcc编译器测试:

#include <iostream>
#include "upove_code.h"

int main()
{

    std::string str1 = "hEllo ";
    char str2 [] = "wOrld";

    ToUpper(str1);
    ToUpper(str2);
    std::cout << str1 << str2 << '\n'; 
    Tolower(str1);
    Tolower(str2);
    std::cout << str1 << str2 << '\n'; 
    return 0;
}

输出:

>HELLO WORLD
>
>hello world

看看优秀的c++17 cppp -unicodelib (GitHub)。它是单文件且只包含头文件。

#include <exception>
#include <iostream>
#include <codecvt>

// cpp-unicodelib, downloaded from GitHub
#include "unicodelib.h"
#include "unicodelib_encodings.h"

using namespace std;
using namespace unicode;

// converter that allows displaying a Unicode32 string
wstring_convert<codecvt_utf8<char32_t>, char32_t> converter;

std::u32string  in = U"Je suis là!";
cout << converter.to_bytes(in) << endl;

std::u32string  lc = to_lowercase(in);
cout << converter.to_bytes(lc) << endl;

输出

Je suis là!
je suis là!