quotemeta
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)
quotemeta — Quote meta characters
Description
quotemeta ( string $string ) : string
Returns a version of str with a backslash character (\) before every character that is among these:
. \ + * ? [ ^ ] ( $ )
Parameters
-
string -
The input string.
Return Values
Returns the string with meta characters quoted, or false if an empty string is given as string.
Notes
Note: This function is binary-safe.
See Also
- addslashes() - Quote string with slashes
- addcslashes() - Quote string with slashes in a C style
- htmlentities() - Convert all applicable characters to HTML entities
- htmlspecialchars() - Convert special characters to HTML entities
- nl2br() - Inserts HTML line breaks before all newlines in a string
- stripslashes() - Un-quotes a quoted string
- stripcslashes() - Un-quote string quoted with addcslashes
- ereg() - Regular expression match
- preg_quote() - Quote regular expression characters
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https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.quotemeta.php