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Request #8326 ucfirst() has no effect if input is ALL CAPITALIZED
Submitted: 2000-12-19 20:55 UTC Modified: 2001-01-10 02:03 UTC
From: vitaliyf at gameaholic dot com Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Feature/Change Request
PHP Version: 4.0.3pl1 OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2000-12-19 20:55 UTC] vitaliyf at gameaholic dot com 
Running ucfirst() on a string which is already all capitalized has no effect:

<?php print ucfirst("HELLO WORLD"); ?>
will print "HELLO WORLD".

The expected behavior here is probably to return "Hello World".

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 [2000-12-19 21:07 UTC] vitaliyf at gameaholic dot com 
A little correction:

Above bug report refers to ucwords(), however ucfirst() has exact same problem.  ucfirst("HELLO WORLD") should return "Hello world".
 [2000-12-19 22:09 UTC] ronabop@php.net 
Changed to a feature request.

The first letters are put into upper case, as per the function name and description.... an alternate function such as "title case" could be interesting, but
ucfirst(strtolower($string));
will also accomplish this.
 [2001-01-10 02:03 UTC] david@php.net 
This is completely bogus and would break all existing scripts. The purpose of ucfirst is just to uppercase the first letter and make no other changes.

If you really want that, why not simply do ucfirst(strtolower($var)). Ditto ucwords.
 
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