04-09-2013
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Originally Posted by
dmesserly
That ^L is a pesky character. I've tried the above in sed and / or awk, used the octal \014 and the ^L, escaped it, quoted it, and everything else I could think to do, then directed it into a file and it is still there. Crazy.
Maybe we could help if you told us what you want to do with the form-feed character. Putting a form-feed in a string isn't going to make it disappear from a file.
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UCWORDS(3) 1 UCWORDS(3)
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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