quotemeta

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

quotemeta — Quote meta characters

Description

string quotemeta ( string $str )

Returns a version of str with a backslash character (\) before every character that is among these:

. \ + * ? [ ^ ] ( $ )

Parameters

str

The input string.

Return Values

Returns the string with meta characters quoted.

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
• preg_match() - Perform a regular expression match
• preg_quote() - Quote regular expression characters