PHP: Escape illegal chars in .ini-files

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Published on 2010-03-29T10:31:02Z Indexed on 2010/03/29 10:33 UTC
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The documentation on parse_ini_file (http://php.net/manual/en/function.parse-ini-file.php) states that you can't use these chars {}|&~![()^" in the value. Is there some way to escape these chars? I need to use them. Normal escaping with \ doesn't seem to work.

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