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quotemeta

Name

quotemeta — Escapes meta characters within a string.

Synopsis

string quotemeta(string); string string:

Returns

String

Description

quotemeta() escapes any meta characters within a string with a single leading backslash. The function considers the following characters to be meta characters:

asterisk (*)
backslash (\)
brackets ([])
caret (^)
dollar sign ($)
parenthesis (())
period (.)
plus sign (+)
question mark (?)

This function is useful for escaping characters that may have special meaning in contexts such as SQL query strings or regular expressions.

Version

PHP 3+, PHP 4+

Example

Example 1215. Escape a string

<?php
$data = 'The widget costs $100.00 CA ($75.00 USD).';
echo quotemeta($data);
?>

Output:The widget costs \$100\.00 CA \(\$75\.00 USD\)\.

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