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ucwords

(PHP 3>= 3.0.3, PHP 4 >= 4.0b1)

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


$text = "mary had a little lamb and she loved it so.";
$text = ucwords($text); // $text is now: Mary Had A Little 
                        // Lamb And She Loved It So.

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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