PHP Exercises: Decapitalize the first letter of the string and then adds it with rest of the string

PHP: Exercise-97 with Solution

Write a PHP program to decapitalize the first letter of the string and then adds it with rest of the string.

Sample Solution:

PHP Code:

<?php
// Licence: https://bit.ly/2CFA5XY

// Function definition for 'decapitalize' that takes a string and an optional parameter '$upperRest' (default is false)
function decapitalize($string, $upperRest = false)
{
    // Use 'lcfirst' to convert the first character of the string to lowercase
    // Use 'strtoupper' if '$upperRest' is true, otherwise keep the string as it is
    return lcfirst($upperRest ? strtoupper($string) : $string);
}

// Call 'decapitalize' with a string and display the result using 'print_r'
print_r(decapitalize('Python'));

?>

Sample Output:

python

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