String Functions
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quotemeta

Quote meta characters

Description

string quotemeta(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.

Examples

Example #1 quotemeta example

<?php

var_dump(quotemeta('PHP is a popular scripting language. Fast, flexible, and pragmatic.'));
?>

The above example will output:

string(69) "PHP is a popular scripting language\. Fast, flexible, and pragmatic\."

Notes

Note: This function is binary-safe.

See Also

  • addslashes
  • addcslashes
  • htmlentities
  • htmlspecialchars
  • nl2br
  • stripslashes
  • stripcslashes
  • preg_quote