quotemeta

Quote meta characters

&reftitle.description; `string` `quotemeta` `string` `string`

Returns a version of str with a backslash character (`\`) before every character that is among these:

    . \ + * ? [ ^ ] ( $ )

&reftitle.parameters;

`string`

- The input string.

&reftitle.returnvalues;

Returns the string with meta characters quoted, or &false; if an empty string is given as `string`.

&reftitle.examples;

### `quotemeta` example

    <?php

    var_dump(quotemeta('PHP is a popular scripting language. Fast, flexible, and pragmatic.'));
    ?>

&example.outputs;

    string(69) "PHP is a popular scripting language\. Fast, flexible, and pragmatic\."

&reftitle.notes; ¬e.bin-safe;
&reftitle.seealso;

- `addslashes`
- `addcslashes`
- `htmlentities`
- `htmlspecialchars`
- `nl2br`
- `stripslashes`
- `stripcslashes`
- `preg_quote`