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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