Sign Up

Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.

Have an account? Sign In

Have an account? Sign In Now

Sign In

Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.

Sign Up Here

Forgot Password?

Don't have account, Sign Up Here

Forgot Password

Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.

Have an account? Sign In Now

You must login to ask a question.

Forgot Password?

Need An Account, Sign Up Here

Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.

Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.

Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.

Sign InSign Up

The Archive Base

The Archive Base Logo The Archive Base Logo

The Archive Base Navigation

  • SEARCH
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Blog
  • Contact Us
Search
Ask A Question

Mobile menu

Close
Ask a Question
  • Home
  • Add group
  • Groups page
  • Feed
  • User Profile
  • Communities
  • Questions
    • New Questions
    • Trending Questions
    • Must read Questions
    • Hot Questions
  • Polls
  • Tags
  • Badges
  • Buy Points
  • Users
  • Help
  • Buy Theme
  • SEARCH
Home/ Questions/Q 7941943
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Editorial Team
Asked: June 3, 20262026-06-03T23:49:08+00:00 2026-06-03T23:49:08+00:00

echo preg_quote(aaa<bbb); should write: aaa\<bbb but I get: aaa\ This is the only sign

  • 0
echo preg_quote("aaa<bbb");

should write:

aaa\<bbb

but I get:

aaa\

This is the only sign that makes problems.

  • 1 1 Answer
  • 0 Views
  • 0 Followers
  • 0
Share
  • Facebook
  • Report

Leave an answer
Cancel reply

You must login to add an answer.

Forgot Password?

Need An Account, Sign Up Here

1 Answer

  • Voted
  • Oldest
  • Recent
  • Random
  1. Editorial Team
    Editorial Team
    2026-06-03T23:49:09+00:00Added an answer on June 3, 2026 at 11:49 pm

    If you want to display it in browser what it just is, you could wrap it in <pre> tag.

    echo '<pre>'.preg_quote("aaa<bbb").'</pre>';
    

    Or you could use htmlspecialchars to escape the <.

    echo htmlspecialchars(preg_quote("aaa<bbb"));
    
    • 0
    • Reply
    • Share
      Share
      • Share on Facebook
      • Share on Twitter
      • Share on LinkedIn
      • Share on WhatsApp
      • Report

Sidebar

Related Questions

I have this code <?php $a = \\u0000; $b = preg_quote($a); echo <br />my
echo date(W,strtotime('2010-01-01')); This outputs 53. I would expect it to output 1. Can anyone
echo '<img src=data:image/jpg/png/jpeg;base64,' . base64_encode( $row['image'] ) . ' height=150 />'; This is showing
I am trying to write a regex that will allow me to parse CSV
I am struggling to get preg_match to return only the image URL and not
Question is in the title. I tried strip_tags, but that shows up blank and
echo preg_replace(/f(o)o/, 'b$1r', 'This is foo.'); $var = ??? // here I want to
Why this code display my/url/ instead of my/url ? <?php $url = /my/url/; echo
I'm sure this has already been asked and answered, but I honestly couldn't find
This example works fine: echo preg_replace(/\bI\b/u, 'we', I can); // we can This one

Explore

  • Home
  • Add group
  • Groups page
  • Communities
  • Questions
    • New Questions
    • Trending Questions
    • Must read Questions
    • Hot Questions
  • Polls
  • Tags
  • Badges
  • Users
  • Help
  • SEARCH

Footer

© 2021 The Archive Base. All Rights Reserved
With Love by The Archive Base

Insert/edit link

Enter the destination URL

Or link to existing content

    No search term specified. Showing recent items. Search or use up and down arrow keys to select an item.