Quote regular expression

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Pattern::prepare(["(My|Our) dog's name is ", [$input], '!']);

Suggested articles:

• Pattern::prepare()
• Pattern::inject()
• Pattern::bind()

Building your own patterns can be dangerous and lead to security errors. T-Regx offers a rich variety of dedicated builders including Pattern::prepare(), Pattern::inject() and Pattern::bind().

Procedural quoting - be careful

There are two methods Pattern::quote() and Pattern::unquote().

First of which works as preg_quote() is supposed to work (except for the fact that preg_quote() is broken before PHP 7.1.3).

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Pattern::quote('Welcome\How are you?');

Welcome\\How are you\?

...second of which is the direct opposite:

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Pattern::unquote('Welcome\\How are you\?');

Welcome\How are you?

Please, keep in mind that this is not a safe way to create patterns with unsafe characters - for that, consider using Prepared Patterns.

Contract

These two methods should be transitive, so:

// when

$output = Pattern::unquote(Pattern::quote($input));

// then

$this->assertEquals($input, $output);

The contract is that $input should be identical to $output for any string value.