Meaning of metacharacter | Babel Free

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

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“This chapter moves on to look⟳ at several regular expression metacharacters and modifiers. Metacharacters can be combined with literal characters and quantifiers, which were discussed in Chapter 3, to create⟳ more complex regular expression patterns.”

“You can't enter⟳ invisible characters—such as tab characters, line-end characters, or carriage returns—in the Find⟳ What or Change⟳ To fields. To get⟳ around this, you enter⟳ codes—known as “metacharacters”—representing those characters.”

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