quoted_printable_decode
Took me a while to realize this was NOT the command I wanted for escaping potentially harmful characters in a string that would be used as part of a system command. Instead, I needed either escapeshellarg() (http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.escapeshellarg.php) or escapeshellcmd() (http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.escapeshellcmd.php)
quotemeta
Description
string quotemeta ( string str)Returns a version of str with a backslash character (\) before every character that is among these:
. \\ + * ? [ ^ ] ( $ ) |
See also addslashes(), htmlentities(), htmlspecialchars(), nl2br(), and stripslashes().
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User Contributed Notesquotemeta
George Adams
16-Feb-2006 08:57
16-Feb-2006 08:57
15-May-2001 03:41
This function escapes characters that have special meaning in regular expressions. preg_quote() <http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-quote.php> has similar functionality, but is more powerful since it escapes more characters (including one user-specified character).