quotemeta

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

quotemeta — Quote meta characters

quotemeta(string$string): string

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

. \ + * ? [ ^ ] ( $ )

Returns the string with meta characters quoted, or false if an empty string is given as string.

Exemplo #1 quotemeta() example

<?php

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

O exemplo acima produzirá:

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

Nota: Esta função é compatível com dados binários.