Metacharacter Metacharacter

Metacharacter - Definition and Overview

A metacharacter is a character that has a general meaning instead of a literal meaning in a regular expression.

Example Usage of Metacharacter

mithaler: I think I dislike regular expressions. Apparently the dot Metacharacter doesn't match newlines. Gah.
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