Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part V: Text conversion and substitution

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February 04, 2010, 17:19

ucfirst is doing more than just upper casing the first letter. It actually converts the letter to title case.

Title case for a-z is A-Z but for characters outside the ASCII range you can't assume that uc $char eq ucfirst $char

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