ucfirst
PHP function
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(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
Make a string's first character uppercase
Description
ucfirst(string $string): string
Returns a string with the first character of string capitalized, if that character is an ASCII character in the range from "a" (0x61) to "z" (0x7a).
Parameters
stringThe input string.
Return Values
Returns the resulting string.
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Examples
ucfirst() example
php
<?php
$foo = 'hello world!';
echo ucfirst($foo), PHP_EOL; // Hello world!
$bar = 'HELLO WORLD!';
echo ucfirst($bar), PHP_EOL; // HELLO WORLD!
echo ucfirst(strtolower($bar)), PHP_EOL; // Hello world!
?>