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Date:         Sat, 19 Oct 2013 13:25:09 +0200
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From: Clemens Niederberger <contact@MYCHEMISTRY.EU>
Subject: Re: uppercasing
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Am 19.10.2013 10:05, schrieb Andrew Parsloe:
> I thought (naively) that writing
>=20
> \tl_set:Nx \l_tmpa_tl { \tl_to_uppercase:n {text} }
>=20
> would put TEXT in the variable \l_tmpa_tl (as revealed by \tl_show:N
> \l_tmpa_tl). It doesn't, and nothing else that I've tried does either.
> What is the recipe for getting \l_tmpa_tl to contain TEXT, starting fro=
m
> text?
>=20
> Andrew

\tl_to_uppercase:n is a wrapper around the primitive \uppercase which is
not expandable. That's probably the reason why \tl_to_uppercase:n isn't
expandable either.

There is however \tl_expandable_uppercase:n which I believe works by
expandably replacing letters with their uppercase versions:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{expl3}
\begin{document}
\ExplSyntaxOn
\tl_set:Nx \l_tmpa_tl { \tl_expandable_uppercase:n { text } }
\tl_show:N \l_tmpa_tl
\ExplSyntaxOff
\end{document}

Best,
Clemens

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