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Making the first letter of every sentence upper case using ucfirst

I'm trying to make the first letter of every sentence to be upper case while keeping the punctuation marks. I have tried ucfirst, but it only makes the first letter of the string uppercase, and not every other sentences. How do I fix this?

$text = "yes. are you listening to me? huh?!"
$text = ucfirst($text);

echo $text;

Expected Output: 

Yes. Are you listening to me? Huh?!"

Actual Output: 

Yes. are you listening to me? huh?!"
Solution

  • Try this:

    function ucfirstSentence($str){
     $str = ucfirst(strtolower($str));
     $str = preg_replace_callback('/([.!?])\s*(\w)/', 
       create_function('$matches', 'return strtoupper($matches[0]);'), $str);
     return $str;
}