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quotemeta — Quote meta characters

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kumarkulandai at gmail dot com ¶

16 years ago

<?php
$str = "Hello world. (can you hear me?)";
echo quotemeta($str);
?>

The output of the code above will be:
Hello world\. \(can you hear me\?\)

George Adams ¶

19 years ago

Anonymous ¶

24 years ago

This function escapes characters that have special meaning in regular expressions.  preg_quote() <http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-quote.php> has similar functionality, but is more powerful since it escapes more characters (including one user-specified character).