db2_escape_string

(PECL ibm_db2:1.6.0-1.6.2)

db2_escape_string — Used to escape certain characters

Description

string db2_escape_string ( string $string_literal )

Prepends backslashes to special characters in the string argument.

Parameters

string_literal: The string that contains special characters that need to be modified. Characters that are prepended with a backslash are \x00, \n, \r, \, ', " and \x1a.

Return Values

Returns string_literal with the special characters noted above prepended with backslashes.

Examples

Example #1 A db2_escape_string() example

Result of using the db2_escape_string() function

 <?php

$conn = db2_connect($database, $user, $password);

if ($conn) {
    $str[0] = "All characters: \x00 , \n , \r , \ , ' , \" , \x1a .";
    $str[1] = "Backslash (\). Single quote ('). Double quote (\")";
    $str[2] = "The NULL character \0 must be quoted as well";
    $str[3] = "Intersting characters: \x1a , \x00 .";
    $str[4] = "Nothing to quote";
    $str[5] = 200676;
    $str[6] = "";

    foreach( $str as $string ) {
        echo "db2_escape_string: " . db2_escape_string($string). "\n";
    }
}
?>

The above example will output:

  db2_escape_string: All characters: \0 , \n , \r , \\ , \' , \" , \Z . db2_escape_string: Backslash (\\). Single quote (\'). Double quote (\") db2_escape_string: The NULL character \0 must be quoted as well db2_escape_string: Intersting characters: \Z , \0 . db2_escape_string: Nothing to quote db2_escape_string: 200676 db2_escape_string:

db2_escape_string

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