metacharacter
Sign in to saveA metacharacter is a character that has a special meaning to a computer program, such as a shell interpreter or a regular expression (regex) engine. For instance, in XML, the character is interpreted not as ordinary text (in which it would be the less-than sign), but rather as a metacharacter signalling the beginning of an XML tag.
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A metacharacter is a character that has a special meaning to a computer program, such as a shell interpreter or a regular expression (regex) engine. For instance, in XML, the character is interpreted not as ordinary text (in which it would be the less-than sign), but rather as a metacharacter signalling the beginning of an XML tag.
==In POSIX extended regular expressions==
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quotation mark
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semicolon
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regular expression
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string
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&
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character
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Unix shell
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underscore
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