note 84058 deleted from function.preg-replace by danbrown

Note Submitter: patrick dot d dot hayes at gmail dot com ---- Here's some handy-dandy code that will properly escape a string that includes regex special characters. <?php $x = " /\\[|\\\\|\\^|\\$|\\.|\\||\\? |\\*|\\+|\\(|\\)|\\{|\\}/ "; $escaped_string = preg_replace($x, "\\\\$0", $in_string); ?> This is useful if you are generating dynamic regular expressions based on user input. With the above example, the $escaped_string variable is now ready to be used in another regular expression as the search variable.