ucwords

[The Little Guy]

Using this function, How can I get it so that it will uppercase the first letter after a parentheses, (a cat) would become (A Cat), and not (a Cat).

[chazzy]

have you tried it w/ ucfirst?

[The Little Guy]

That only upper cases the first letter of the string, not every letter of each word.

[chazzy]

function ucFirstWithParenthesis($string){
$temp = str_replace("(","( ",$string);
$temp = ucwords($temp);
return $temp;
} 

Not tested.

[The Little Guy]

It half way worked, so I modifyed it to look like this:

function edit_name($edit){
    $nedit = str_replace("(","( ",$edit); 
    $temp = ucwords($nedit); 
    $nedit = str_replace("( ","(",$temp); 
    return $nedit;
} 

That works.^

[chazzy]

knew i forgot something. glad i mentioned not tested and you knew what to do cheers!

[bokeh]

<?php


$target = 'a (string with brackets).';
echo preg_replace('/\b[a-z]/e', "strtoupper('$0')", $target);

?>

[The Little Guy]

Can someone explaine to me what this means: /\b[a-z]/e

and what each of the symbols are for.

[bokeh]

/: delimiter
\b: word boundary
[a-z]: one character, lower case, a thru z
/: delimiter
e: "e" modifier, used with preg_replace, orders the second argument to be evaluated.

[The Little Guy]

So... If I would like to uppercase the letter after a period would I use this:
preg_replace('/\b./e', "strtoupper('$0')", $target);

And if I would like to uppercase the letter after a hyphen would I use this:
preg_replace('/\b-/e', "strtoupper('$0')", $target);

[bokeh]

So... If I would like to uppercase the letter after a period would I use this:
preg_replace('/\b./e', "strtoupper('$0')", $target);

No! For a start an unescaped dot in PCRE is a wildcard. Also even if it were an escaped dot all you would be capturing would be a dot.

And if I would like to uppercase the letter after a hyphen would I use this:
preg_replace('/\b-/e', "strtoupper('$0')", $target);

All you are capturing here is a hyphen.

For me to give useful help about this you will need to post a before and after example!

[The Little Guy]

Before:
one-x
a.s.a.p.

After:
One-X
A.S.A.P.

[bokeh]

That is because every character in that string is at a word boundry and is matched by a wildcard. Doesn't make it right though.

[The Little Guy]

$nedit = preg_replace('/\b[a-z]/e', "strtoupper('$0')", $nedit); 

I believe that this is making anything after an ' become uppercase.
Example:
So the word don't becomes Don'T and I want it to become Don't.

Is there a way to remove that from happening with this line? Otherwise I will add a str_replace.

[bokeh]

$nedit = preg_replace('/(?<!\')\b[a-z]/e', "strtoupper('$0')", $nedit);