<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >QuoteMeta</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.44"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="manual.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="String functions" HREF="ref.strings.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="quoted_printable_decode" HREF="function.quoted-printable-decode.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="rawurldecode" HREF="function.rawurldecode.html"></HEAD ><BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.quoted-printable-decode.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.rawurldecode.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.quotemeta" >QuoteMeta</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN26053" ></A >QuoteMeta -- quote meta characters</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN26056" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><DIV CLASS="funcsynopsis" ><P ></P ><CODE CLASS="FUNCDEF" >string quotemeta</CODE >(string str);<P ></P ></DIV ><P > Returns a version of str with a backslash character (<TT CLASS="literal" >\</TT >) before every character that is among these: <TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="screen" >. \\ + * ? [ ^ ] ( $ )</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.addslashes.html" ><B CLASS="function" >addslashes()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.htmlentities.html" ><B CLASS="function" >htmlentities()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.htmlspecialchars.html" ><B CLASS="function" >htmlspecialchars()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.nl2br.html" ><B CLASS="function" >nl2br()</B ></A >, and <A HREF="function.stripslashes.html" ><B CLASS="function" >stripslashes()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.quoted-printable-decode.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="manual.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.rawurldecode.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >quoted_printable_decode</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.strings.html" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >rawurldecode</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >