What is the best way to capitalize a string?

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Re: What is the best way to capitalize a string?⭐ by plaid (Chaplain) on Jul 15, 2000 at 00:53 UTC
A couple (better?) ways come to mind: `$string = uc($string);` [download] `$string =~ tr/a-z/A-Z/;` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: What is the best way to capitalize a string?⭐ by chromatic (Archbishop) on Jul 15, 2000 at 00:54 UTC
Try the internal function uc. To capitalize just the first character, try ucfirst. This has the additional benefit of respecting any locale you have set.	[reply]
Re: What is the best way to capitalize a string? by galande (Initiate) on Nov 24, 2000 at 13:32 UTC
You can use uc or lc built-in functions to change case. If you wanto to change case of first character only, then use ucfirst or lcfirst functions. `$lower = "name"; $upper = "NAME"; print uc($lower),"\n"; ### This will print : NAME print lc($upper),"\n"; ### This will print : name print ucfirst($lower),"\n"; ## This will print : Name print lcfirst($upper),"\n"; ## This will print : nAME` [download]	[reply] [d/l]