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  <refentry id="function.ucfirst">
   <refnamediv>
    <refname>ucfirst</refname> 
    <refpurpose>Make a string's first character uppercase</refpurpose>
   </refnamediv>
   <refsect1>
    <title>Description</title>
     <methodsynopsis>
      <type>string</type><methodname>ucfirst</methodname>
      <methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>str</parameter></methodparam>
     </methodsynopsis>
    <para>
     Returns a string with the first character of
     <parameter>str</parameter> capitalized, if that character is
     alphabetic.
    </para>
    <para>
     Note that 'alphabetic' is determined by the current locale. For
     instance, in the default "C" locale characters such as umlaut-a
     (&auml;) will not be converted.
     <example>
      <title><function>ucfirst</function> example</title>
      <programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$foo = 'hello world!';
$foo = ucfirst($foo);             // Hello world!

$bar = 'HELLO WORLD!';
$bar = ucfirst($bar);             // HELLO WORLD!
$bar = ucfirst(strtolower($bar)); // Hello world!
?>
]]>
      </programlisting>
     </example>
    </para>
    <para>
     See also <function>strtolower</function>, <function>strtoupper</function>,
     and <function>ucwords</function>.
    </para>
   </refsect1>
  </refentry>

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