lcfirst
(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PHP 7)
lcfirst — Make a string's first character lowercase
Description
lcfirst ( string $string ) : string
Returns a string with the first character of string 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.
Parameters
-
string -
The input string.
Return Values
Returns the resulting string.
Examples
Example #1 lcfirst() example
<?php $foo = 'HelloWorld'; $foo = lcfirst($foo); // helloWorld $bar = 'HELLO WORLD!'; $bar = lcfirst($bar); // hELLO WORLD! $bar = lcfirst(strtoupper($bar)); // hELLO WORLD! ?>
See Also
- ucfirst() - Make a string's first character uppercase
- strtolower() - Make a string lowercase
- strtoupper() - Make a string uppercase
- ucwords() - Uppercase the first character of each word in a string
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