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# ucfirst

(PHP 3 <= 3.0.18, PHP 4 >= 4.0.0)

ucfirst -- Make a string's first character uppercase

## Description

``string ucfirst` (string str)`

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

Note that 'alphabetic' is determined by the current locale. For instance, in the default "C" locale characters such as umlaut-a (ä) will not be converted.

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

    $bar = 'HELLO WORLD!';
    $bar = ucfirst($bar);             // HELLO WORLD!
    $bar = ucfirst(strtolower($bar)); // Hello world!

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

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