METACHARACTER

Metacharacter

A metacharacter is a character that has a special meaning to a computer program, such as a shell interpreter or a regular expression engine.

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metacharacter

Noun

  1. A character used to signify something other than its literal form, such as the asterisk when used as a wildcard.


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