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Metacharacter

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.

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In POSIX extended regular expressions

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CharacterRegular expressionXMLLess-than signXML tag
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In POSIX extended regular expressions

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Escaping

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Metacharacter

Nodes35
Edges34
Triples11
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.057143
Components1

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Metacharacter

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related to Escaping · 8
Metacharacter → A3C, ABC, For, However, MS-DOS/Windows Command Prompt, Other, PCRE, The
related to In POSIX extended regular expressions · 2
Metacharacter → For, In POSIX
is a · 1
Metacharacter → character that has a special meaning to a computer program

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character special meaning regular used expression sign match regex interpreted ms-dos xml escaped literally windows command prompt escape less-than posix

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Metacharacteris acharacter that has a special meaning to a computer program0.90text
Metacharacterrelated to EscapingThe0.60section
Metacharacterrelated to EscapingFor0.60section
Metacharacterrelated to EscapingPCRE0.60section
Metacharacterrelated to EscapingABC0.60section
Metacharacterrelated to EscapingA3C0.60section
Metacharacterrelated to EscapingHowever0.60section
Metacharacterrelated to EscapingOther0.60section
Metacharacterrelated to EscapingMS-DOS/Windows Command Prompt0.60section
Metacharacterrelated to In POSIX extended regular expressionsIn POSIX0.60section
Metacharacterrelated to In POSIX extended regular expressionsFor0.60section

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