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ucfirst function - converts the beginning of a string from lowercase to uppercase

You can use the ucfirst function to convert only the beginning of a string from lowercase to uppercase.

# Convert first letter to uppercase
$ret = ucfirst $string;

Programming example for ucfirst function

This is a programming example of the ucfirst function.

use strict;
use warnings;

# Convert "foo" to "Foo"
my $str = ucfirst "foo";

print "$str\n";

Output result

Foo

Related information of ucfirst function

Related information for the ucfirst function.

• lc function-convert uppercase to lowercase
• lcfirst function - Converts the beginning of a string from uppercase to lowercase
• uc function-convert lowercase letters to uppercase letters