12.3. Encoding and Decoding
The functions in this section transform data from one form to another. This includes stripping certain characters, substituting some characters for others, and translating data into some encoded form.
string addcslashes(string text, string characters)
The addcslashes function returns the text argument after escaping characters in the style of the C programming language. Briefly, this means special characters are replaced with codes, such as \n replacing a newline character, and other characters outside ASCII 32–126 are replaced with backslash octal codes.
The optional characters argument may contain a list of characters to be escaped, which overrides the default of escaping all special characters. The characters are ...
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