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<h1 class="refname">quotemeta</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 4, PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">quotemeta</span> — <span class="dc-title">Quote meta characters</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<span class="type">string</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>quotemeta</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$str</code></span>
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Returns a version of str with a backslash character (<em>\</em>)
before every character that is among these:
<div class="example-contents screen">. \ + * ? [ ^ ] ( $ )</div>
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<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
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<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">str</code></em></span>
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The input string.
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<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
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Returns the string with meta characters quoted, or <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong> if an empty
string is given as <em><code class="parameter">str</code></em>.
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<div class="refsect1 notes" id="refsect1-function.quotemeta-notes">
<h3 class="title">Notes</h3>
<blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>: <span class="simpara">This function is
binary-safe.</span></p></blockquote>
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<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
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<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.addslashes.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">addslashes()</a> - Quote string with slashes</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.addcslashes.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">addcslashes()</a> - Quote string with slashes in a C style</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.htmlentities.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">htmlentities()</a> - Convert all applicable characters to HTML entities</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.htmlspecialchars.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">htmlspecialchars()</a> - Convert special characters to HTML entities</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.nl2br.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">nl2br()</a> - Inserts HTML line breaks before all newlines in a string</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.stripslashes.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">stripslashes()</a> - Un-quotes a quoted string</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.stripcslashes.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">stripcslashes()</a> - Un-quote string quoted with addcslashes</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.ereg.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">ereg()</a> - Regular expression match</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.preg-quote.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">preg_quote()</a> - Quote regular expression characters</span></li>
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