ooden cases. The more often needed miniscule letters were placed closer to hand, in the lower cases of the work bench. The less often needed, capitalized, majuscule letters, ended up in the harder to reach upper cases.</p>
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EXAMPLES</h2>
<pre class="fragment">Sample program:

 program demo_lower
 use M_time, only: lower
 implicit none
 character(len=:),allocatable  :: s
    s=' ABCDEFG abcdefg '
    write(*,*) 'mixed-case input string is ....',s
    write(*,*) 'lo