Elements in a string vector to lower case

Question

I am using one vector of strings and the strings are not in lower case. I want them to covert to lower case.

For converting string to lower case, I am using following method.

std::transform(strCmdLower.begin(), strCmdLower.end(), strCmdLower.begin(), ::tolower);

I can iterate vector and convert each string but I would like to know is there any library functions available for this purpose like above. Copying to new vector also fine.

std::vector<std::string> v1;
v1.push_back("ABC");
v1.push_back("DCE");

std::vector<std::string> v2(v1.begin(), v1.end());

Answer 1

You can still use std::transform with a lambda, eg

std::vector<std::string> v1;
v1.push_back("ABC");
v1.push_back("DCE");

std::vector<std::string> v2;
v2.reserve(v1.size());

std::transform(
    v1.begin(), 
    v1.end(), 
    std::back_inserter(v2), 
    [](const std::string& in) {
        std::string out;
        out.reserve(in.size());
        std::transform(in.begin(), in.end(), std::back_inserter(out), ::tolower);
        return out;
    }
);

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