[PHP-DEV] PHP 4.0 Bug #8328: ucwords and ucfirst misbehaving with quotes From: vitaliyf <email protected>
Date: 12/20/00

From: vitaliyf <email protected>
Operating system: Linux
PHP version: 4.0.3pl1
PHP Bug Type: Strings related
Bug description: ucwords and ucfirst misbehaving with quotes

Another unrelated ucwords/ucfirst bug(?):

<?php
  $string = 'this is a "test" with word "test" in quotes';
  print ucwords($string);
  $string = '"test2" again';
  print ucfirst($string);
?>

produces:

This Is A "test" With Word "test" In Quotes
"test2" Again

I understand that by algorithm, first character of each word *IS* upper-cased (because first character is "). However, for us humans, " is not considered a part of a word, therefore "t" in above example should be treated as first letter, and test and test2 should be Test and Test2.

I think that any non-alphanumeric character that is in the beginning of a word (meaning follows a whitespace) should not be considered as "first".

So then:

"test1" - 'test2' would be "Test1" - 'Test2'
"test3" -'test4' would be "Test3" -'Test4'
"test5-test6" would be "Test5-test6"

Comments welcome.. 

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