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Written by dseguy on 2024-11-26 at 22:12

TIL that there are two ways to protect characters in a #PHP regex : preg_quote() and \Q .... \E.

It looks scary, but it might be very useful indeed.

https://php-tips.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tips/escaped_regex.html

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Written by Tim Düsterhus on 2024-11-26 at 22:18

@dseguy And what if $regex contains the substring \E? 🙂

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Written by dseguy on 2024-11-27 at 06:40

@timwolla Indeed 😭

This is the moment where having 2 solutions for the same job is good.

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