Formerly used to escape strings before searching the DB. It was poorly documented and never worked as described.

Description

See also

• wpdb::esc_like()

Parameters

$textstringrequired

The text to be escaped.

Return

Source

function like_escape($text) {
	_deprecated_function( __FUNCTION__, '4.0.0', 'wpdb::esc_like()' );
	return str_replace( array( "%", "_" ), array( "\\%", "\\_" ), $text );
}

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