Change first word in a sentence to uppercase

Question

I am looking to convert the first word of a sentence into uppercase but unsure how would I go about it. This is what I have so far:

$o = "";

  if((preg_match("/ibm/i", $m)) || (preg_match("/hpspecial/i", $m))) {

$o = strtoupper($m);

} else {

  $o = ucwords(strtolower($m));

}

I would like to use uppercase from the hpspecial ID where HP is the first part of the sentence to be capitalized, but this will uppercase the whole sentence. How do I only make HP of the sentence uppercase?

Can you give the full original sentence, and what you want it to be converted to? Your question is not very clear to me. — nkkollaw, Apr 12 '13 at 10:03

NullPoiиteя · Answer 1 · 2013-04-12T09:47:23.943

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you can dot his by ucfirst

ucfirst — Make a string's first character uppercase

like

$foo = 'hello form world';
$foo = ucfirst($foo);

live output

edit: to make it first word upper case you can do like

<?php
$foo = 'hello form world ';

$pieces = explode(" ", $foo);
$pieces[0] = strtoupper($pieces[0]);
$imp = implode(" ", $pieces);
echo $imp;

live result

edited Apr 12 '13 at 09:47

answered Apr 12 '13 at 09:38

NullPoiиteя

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Thanks. But i would like the whole word of the SENTENCE to be uppercase, not the first letter. i know i have to use strtoupper but in my code i have provided it will convert the whole sentence of 'hpspecial' to uppercase, i just would like the FIRST word of the sentence upper – ash Apr 12 '13 at 09:42

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 12 '13 at 09:56

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How about something like this:

$arr = explode(' ');
$arr[0] = strtoupper($arr[0]);

echo implode(' ' , $arr);

I don't know if there's a function built-in, but I think this should work?

answered Apr 12 '13 at 09:56

nkkollaw

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score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 12 '13 at 09:51

Seems that you don't really have a special pattern, why don't just use preg_replace?

$search = array('/ibm/i', '/hpspecial/i');
$replace = array('IBM', 'HPspecial');

$string = preg_replace($search, $replace, $string);

You have to do it like this anyway because you can't really difference HP from Special (at least with simple ways);

You can use the same approach using str_replace actually as you are not using complex patterns as far as I can see.

Sometimes the simplest solution is the best

score -1 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 12 '13 at 09:56

you can use custom function like

function uc_first_word ($string)
{
   $s = explode(' ', $string);   
   $s[0] = strtoupper($s[0]);   
   $s = implode(' ', $s);
   return $s;
}

$string = 'Hello world. This is a test.'; echo $s = uc_first_word ($string)

so output would be

HELLO world. This is a test

so first word before space will be as upper for whole sentence.

Change first word in a sentence to uppercase

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