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lcfirst

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(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PHP 7, PHP 8)

Make a string's first character lowercase

Description

lcfirst(string $string): string

Returns a string with the first character of string lowercased if that character is an ASCII character in the range "A" (0x41) to "Z" (0x5a).

Parameters

string: The input string.

Return Values

Returns the resulting string.

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Examples

lcfirst() example

php

<?php
$foo = 'HelloWorld';
echo lcfirst($foo), PHP_EOL;             // helloWorld

$bar = 'HELLO WORLD!';
echo lcfirst($bar), PHP_EOL;             // hELLO WORLD!
echo lcfirst(strtoupper($bar)), PHP_EOL; // hELLO WORLD!
?>