note 48589 deleted from function.quotemeta by nlopess
| From: | nlopess@php.net | Date: | Fri, 31 Dec 2004 18:48:56 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 48589 deleted from function.quotemeta by nlopess | ||
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Note Submitter: chris at hoffie dot info
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A short function to prepare a string to be inserted in an regular expression:
<?php
function escape4reg ($var) {
return preg_replace ('/([\/\\\^\$\.\[\]\(\)\?\*\+\{\}\|])/', '\\\\$1', $var);
}
?>