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ucfirst

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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

string

The input string.

Return Values

Returns the resulting string.

Changelog

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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!
?>

See Also

Source: reference/strings/functions/ucfirst.xml · from the official PHP manual (php/doc-en)