quotemeta Quote meta characters &reftitle.description; stringquotemeta stringstr Returns a version of str with a backslash character (\) before every character that is among these: . \ + * ? [ ^ ] ( $ ) &reftitle.parameters; str The input string. &reftitle.returnvalues; Returns the string with meta characters quoted. &reftitle.notes; ¬e.bin-safe; &reftitle.seealso; addslashes addcslashes htmlentities htmlspecialchars nl2br stripslashes stripcslashes preg_match preg_quote