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Definitions for "Metacharacters"
Keywords:  regexp, wildcarded, asterisk, characters, parser
Related Terms: Metacharacter, Escape character, Word, Escape sequence, Special character, Token, Wildcard character, String literal, Character literal, Special characters, Atom, Escape, Letter , Newline character, Character string, Character constant, String, Solidus, Delimited identifier, Composite character, Base character, Character, Wild card, Diacritic, Symbol , Character, Characters, Alphanumeric, Ordinary character, Character substring, Null character, Combining character, Text string, Backslash, Name, Glyph, Ocr-b, Ampersand, Complex script, Character set, Regular expression, Character reference, Label, Wildcard, Asterisk , Charset, Delimiter, Ligature, Codepage, Character class
Metacharacters are characters that have special meaning in certain contexts. For example, the characters '*' and '?' have certain special significance in building regular expressions or in the identification of groups of files to the Shell.
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Special characters that let you specify a wildcarded name expression. For example, the asterisk (*) matches zero or more characters.
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Literal characters interpreted by a parser.
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