Special characters

[gcotterl]

How can I find/replace these characters?

:
}
,
^
*
(
_
]
\
{
'
)
+
{
;
|
"
<
?
>
.
/
~

[ben_josephs]

Do you mean when searching with regular expressions?

These characters are not special in regular expressions and can be used literally:

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:
,
_
'
;
"
<
>
/
~

These characters are special in regular expressions and (in most cases) must be quoted, either by prefixing them with a backslash (\) or by turning them into a character class by enclosing them in square brackets ([..]).:

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$
?
*
+
(
)
[
]
{
}
|
.

These characters are special in regular expressions and must be quoted by prefixing them with a backslash (\) whether or not they are in a character class:

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^
\