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Special characters
Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2018 6:02 pm
by gcotterl
How can I find/replace these characters?
:
}
,
^
*
(
_
]
\
{
'
)
+
{
;
|
"
<
?
>
.
/
~
Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2018 11:12 pm
by ben_josephs
Do you mean when searching with regular expressions?
These characters are not special in regular expressions and can be used literally:
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 (
[..
]).:
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: