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Make the first character of a string lowercase

JavaScript

const lowercaseFirst = (str) => `${str.charAt(0).toLowerCase()}${str.slice(1)}`

TypeScript

const lowercaseFirst = (str: string): string => `${str.charAt(0).toLowerCase()}${str.slice(1)}`

Examples

lowercaseFirst('Hello World') // 'hello World'