note 41809 deleted from function.quotemeta by nlopess
| From: | nlopess@php.net | Date: | Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:15:19 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 41809 deleted from function.quotemeta by nlopess | ||
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Note Submitter: runesk at linpro dot no
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As this do not escapes |, you should be careful using a quotemeta'ed string as a valid regexp
pattern. I ran into such a hole just now, and ended up using this code:
<?php
$pattern = preg_replace("/\|/", "\\|", quote_meta($pattern);
?>