php man page for ucfirst

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ucfirst - Make a string's first character uppercase

SYNOPSIS
       string ucfirst (string  $str)

DESCRIPTION
	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 (a) will
       not be converted.

PARAMETERS
	      o $str
		- The input string.

RETURN VALUES
	Returns the resulting string.

EXAMPLES
       Example #1

	      ucfirst(3) example

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

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

SEE ALSO
       lcfirst(3), strtolower(3), strtoupper(3), ucwords(3).

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