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>    (PHP 3&#62;= 3.0.9, PHP 4 )</P
>preg_quote&nbsp;--&nbsp;Quote regular expression characters</DIV
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>string <B
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>&#13;     <B
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>preg_quote()</B
> takes <TT
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>str</I
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     and puts a backslash in front of every character that is part of
     the regular expression syntax.  This is useful if you have a
     run-time string that you need to match in some text and the
     string may contain special regex characters.
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>&#13;     If the optional <TT
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     will also be escaped.  This is useful for escaping the delimiter
     that is required by the PCRE functions. The / is the most commonly
     used delimiter.</P
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>&#13;     The special regular expression characters are:
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>$keywords = "$40 for a g3/400";
$keywords = preg_quote ($keywords, "/");
echo $keywords; // returns \$40 for a g3\/400</PRE
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>Example 2. Italicizing a word within some text</B
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>// In this example, preg_quote($word) is used to keep the
// asterisks from having special meaning to the regular
// expression.

$textbody = "This book is *very* difficult to find.";
$word = "*very*";
$textbody = preg_replace ("/".preg_quote($word)."/",
                          "&#60;i&#62;".$word."&#60;/i&#62;",
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