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# ucwords

(3.0.3 - 3.0.18 only, PHP 4 >= 4.0.0)

ucwords -- Uppercase the first character of each word in a string

## Description

``string ucwords` (string str)`

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

Example 1. ucwords() example
    $foo = 'hello world!';
    $foo = ucwords($foo);             // Hello World!

    $bar = 'HELLO WORLD!';
    $bar = ucwords($bar);             // HELLO WORLD!
    $bar = ucwords(strtolower($bar)); // Hello World!

> Note: The definition of a word is any string of characters that is immediately after a whitespace (These are: space, form-feed, newline, carriage return, horizontal tab, and vertical tab).

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

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