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# ucfirst

(PHP 3, PHP 4, PHP 5)

ucfirst -- Make a string's first character uppercase

## Description

string ucfirst ( string str )

Returns a string with the first character of `str` capitalized, if that character is alphabetic.

Note that 'alphabetic' is determined by the current locale. For instance, in the default "C" locale characters such as umlaut-a (ä) will not be converted.

Example 1. ucfirst() example

`<?php $foo = 'hello world!'; $foo = ucfirst($foo); // Hello world! $bar = 'HELLO WORLD!'; $bar = ucfirst($bar); // HELLO WORLD! $bar = ucfirst(strtolower($bar)); // Hello world! ?>`

See also strtolower(), strtoupper(), and ucwords().

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