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

SYNOPSIS

       string ucwords (string  $str)

DESCRIPTION

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

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

PARAMETERS

	      o $str
		- The input string.

RETURN VALUES

	Returns the modified string.

EXAMPLES

       Example #1

	      ucwords(3) example

	      <?php
	      $foo = 'hello world!';
	      $foo = ucwords($foo);		// Hello World!

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

NOTES

       Note

	      This function is binary-safe.

SEE ALSO

       strtoupper(3), strtolower(3), ucfirst(3), mb_convert_case(3).

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