content: -- textLower({str:""})
  -- Erik Shagdar, NYHTC
  -- takes some string and returns the lowercase string
  
  
  (*
  HISTORY:
  	1.0 - 2017-11-03 ( eshagdar ): created
  *)
  
  
  on run
  	textLower({str:"HeLLo"})
  end run
  
  
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  -- START OF CODE
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  on textLower(prefs)
  	-- version 1.0
  	
  	try
  		set defaultPrefs to {str:""}
  		set prefs to prefs & defaultPrefs
  		
  		return (do shell script ("echo " & str of prefs & " | tr A-Z a-z;"))
  	on error errMsg number errNum
  		error "unable to textLower - " & errMsg number errNum
  	end try
  end textLower
  
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  -- END OF CODE
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