preg_quote

Example

 string preg_quote ( string $str [, string $delimiter = NULL ] ) 

Description

preg_quote() takes str 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. The special regular expression characters are: . \ + * ? [ ^ ] $ ( ) { } = ! < > | : -

Return Values

Returns the quoted string.