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uncapitalizeFirst

Converts the first letter of the entire string to lowercase and returns. This is the inverse of capitalizeFirst.

Only the first character is touched, so the rest of the string keeps its case: 'TEST' becomes 'tEST'.

Parameters

NameTypeRequiredDefault
strstringStringstr

Returns

string

String

str

Examples

javascript
uncapitalizeFirst('Abcd'); // Returns 'abcd'
uncapitalizeFirst('TestWords'); // Returns 'testWords'
uncapitalizeFirst('TEST'); // Returns 'tEST'
dart
uncapitalizeFirst('Abcd'); // Returns 'abcd'
uncapitalizeFirst('TestWords'); // Returns 'testWords'
uncapitalizeFirst('TEST'); // Returns 'tEST'
python
uncapitalizeFirst('Abcd')  # Returns 'abcd'
uncapitalizeFirst('TestWords')  # Returns 'testWords'
uncapitalizeFirst('TEST')  # Returns 'tEST'

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