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ash
ash

Reputation: 93

Change first word in a sentence to uppercase

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?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3117

Answers (4)

nkkollaw
nkkollaw

Reputation: 2040

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?

Upvotes: 1

liyakat
liyakat

Reputation: 11853

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.

Upvotes: -1

aleation
aleation

Reputation: 4844

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

Upvotes: -1

NullPoiиteя
NullPoiиteя

Reputation: 57322

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

Upvotes: 6

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