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April 3rd, 2008, 01:18 AM

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How to use regular expression to escape symbols?

hello everyone:

I want to read data from a CSV file and import the data into database table.
the data may contain pound sign, underscore and forward slash.

sample data from the CSV file: EC316UA#AGS, QV2K4-4E58Q-36GFA-QB86J, N/A

a) shall I search these symbols one at a time (escape them one at a time) or
I can search all three symbols at once and escape the them at the same time?

I am thinking use ereg_replace() to match the symbols, escape them and insert the data
into table.

Please give me some advises on how to accomplish this, I appreciate your help!

April 4th, 2008, 09:50 AM

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# _ and / are not special characters. They do not need to be escaped.
If you need to escape anything use mysql_real_escape_string.

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