ucfirst

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

ucfirst — 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

VersionDescription
8.2.0Case conversion no longer depends on the locale set with setlocale(). Only ASCII characters will be converted.

Examples

Example #1 ucfirst() example

<?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!
?>

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