preg_replace issue when replace content has a dollar sign

[Scooby08]

Here's an example of my issue with the dollar sign..

 

This one treats the dollar sign like an expression..

<?php
$input = '<div>stuff</div>';
$replace = '<div>$600,000. Test? Test!</div>';
$output = preg_replace('/<div>(.*?)<\/div>/',$replace,$input);
echo $output; // <div>0,000. Test? Test!</div>
?>

 

So I tried out preg_quote and now the dollar sign is fixed, but the punctuation now has slashes which are not wanted..

<?php
$input = '<div>stuff</div>';
$replace = '<div>'.preg_quote('$600,000. Test? Test!').'</div>';
$output = preg_replace('/<div>(.*?)<\/div>/',$replace,$input);
echo $output; // <div>$600,000\. Test\? Test\!</div>
?>

 

I guess I'm looking for the best alternative to this situation so that dollar signs aren't treated like expressions and the punctuation does not have backslashes..

 

Thanks!

[freelance84]

$ is a special symbol so needs to be negated, http://www.regular-expressions.info/characters.html  this site is pretty awesome

 

 

 

 

[xyph]

This is generally known as escaping a character