Name
quotemeta
Synopsis
string quotemeta(string string)Escapes instances of certain characters in
string by appending a backslash (\) to them and returns the resulting
string. The following characters are escaped: period (.), backslash (\), plus sign (+), asterisk (*), question mark (?), brackets ([ and ]), caret (^), parentheses (( and )), and dollar sign ($).
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