PHP quotemeta function

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quotemeta

(PHP 3, PHP 4, PHP 5)

quotemeta — Quote meta charactersDescriptionstring quotemeta ( string str )

Returns a version of str with a backslash character
(\) before every character that is among
these: . \ + * ? [ ^ ] ( $ )

Note: This function is
binary-safe.

See also addslashes(),
addcslashes(),
htmlentities(),
htmlspecialchars(),
nl2br(),
stripslashes(), and
stripcslashes().

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Published:
2.26.07 / 12am
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PHP Functions
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