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Meta-character

Term used to describe a character or characters that perform a function; for example, "\n" is often used as a meta-character for a new line and "\t" is often used to represent a tab. Meta-characters are often used in computer programming to match the meta-characters. For example, in the below example, the below Perl regular expression would locate any new lines and delete them to combine all the data.

$data =~ s/\n//;

Also see: Character, Escape, Meta-data, Programming definitions, Regular expression, Wildcard

 

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