lcfirst

Synopsis

$result = lcfirst($string);
$result = lcfirst('HELLO');   # "hELLO"

Description

Lowercases the first character of a string.

Returns a copy of STRING with the first character converted to lowercase and all other characters left unchanged. For ASCII first characters, a single-byte in-place mutation is used. For Unicode first characters, to_lowercase() may change the byte length.

Returns an empty string when given an empty string.

See also

ucfirst, uc, lc