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Bug #1375 ucwords() doesn't like uppercase
Submitted: 1999-05-03 16:54 UTC Modified: 1999-05-04 13:34 UTC
From: graeme at kc dot co dot nz Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Misbehaving function
PHP Version: 3.0.6 OS: Linux i386 + Win32
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [1999-05-03 16:54 UTC] graeme at kc dot co dot nz 
ucwords() will not process capitilised strings e.g.
$string = "HELLO THIS IS A TEST";
echo ucwords($string);

does not work but converting the string to lowercase does work.
$string = "HELLO THIS IS A TEST";
echo ucwords(strtolower($string));

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 [1999-05-04 13:34 UTC] sas at cvs dot php dot net 
The behaviour is correct in regard to documented way ucwords should work. The documentation states:

"Capitalizes the first character of each word in str if that character is alphabetic."

It does not say anything about the rest of the word. ucwords does not touch anything but the first letter after a space character.
 
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