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Meta Characters

Sunday October 5, 2008
Regular Expressions have special values to represent ranges of characters.

The sixth tutorial in the "Regular Expression" series introduces the concept of meta characters. Meta characters are those characters which have a different from normal meaning when they are included in a regular expression.

Meta Characters
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