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layout: docs
page_title: upper - Functions - Configuration Language
description: >-
  The upper function converts all cased letters in the given string to
  uppercase.
---

# `upper` Function

`upper` converts all cased letters in the given string to uppercase.

## Examples

```shell-session
> upper("hello")
HELLO
> upper("алло!")
АЛЛО!
```

This function uses Unicode's definition of letters and of upper- and lowercase.

## Related Functions

- [`lower`](/docs/job-specification/hcl2/functions/string/lower) converts letters in a string to _lowercase_.
- [`title`](/docs/job-specification/hcl2/functions/string/title) converts the first letter of each word in a string to uppercase.