Re: Escaping Regex Chars with addcslashes()

From: Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:35:06 +0000
Subject: Re: Escaping Regex Chars with addcslashes()
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Nick Wilson wrote:
Hi all, If i want to find a url on a page, there are some chars i need to escape right? like '/' and '?' do i also need to escape '.'? Are there any other things that might pop up in a url that I can escape with addcslashes()? Much thanks....
Don't use posix regexp, but use perl compatible instead. It has preg_quote() function that is intended for this purpose.

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