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  The upper function converts all cased letters in the given string to uppercase.
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# `upper` Function

-> **Note:** This page is about Terraform 0.12 and later. For Terraform 0.11 and
earlier, see
[0.11 Configuration Language: Interpolation Syntax](../../configuration-0-11/interpolation.html).

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

## Examples

```
> upper("hello")
HELLO
> upper("алло!")
АЛЛО!
```

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

## Related Functions

* [`lower`](./lower.html) converts letters in a string to _lowercase_.
* [`title`](./title.html) converts the first letter of each word in a string to uppercase.