lcfirst Make a string's first character lowercase &reftitle.description; stringlcfirst stringstr Returns a string with the first character of str , lowercased 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. &reftitle.parameters; str The input string. &reftitle.returnvalues; Returns the resulting string. &reftitle.examples; ]]> &reftitle.seealso; ucfirst strtolower strtoupper ucwords