Reserved character

A character or set of characters that cannot be used because of their use in other locations or by the operating system. For example, many operating systems reserve the following characters: "\, /, :, *, ?, ", <, >, and |" and will not allow these characters to be used when saving and/or renaming a file.

Also see: Character, Programming definitions, Reserved word

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