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ucwords

(3.0.3 - 3.0.18 only, PHP 4 >= 4.0.0)

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

Description

string ucwords (string str)

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

Example 1. ucwords() example

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

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

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

See also strtoupper(), strtolower() and ucfirst().

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