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In PHP, the `addcslashes()` function is used to add backslashes before characters that are specified in the second argument. This can be useful for escaping certain characters in a string. Here’s how you can use the `addcslashes()` function in PHP 8.1 and 8.2 with an example:
<?php // Example string $string = "Hello, World! It's a beautiful day."; // Using addcslashes() to escape characters $escaped_string = addcslashes($string, 'W'); // Output the original and escaped strings echo "Original String: $string <br>"; echo "Escaped String: $escaped_string <br>"; ?>
This code will output:
Original String: Hello, World! It's a beautiful day. Escaped String: Hello, \World\! It\'s a beautiful day.
In this example, the `addcslashes()` function adds a backslash before every occurrence of the character ‘W’ in the string. You can specify multiple characters in the second argument of the function to escape more characters.