How can I use a search engine to search for special characters?

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jonderry picture jonderry · Jan 13, 2011 · Viewed 274.7k times · Source

Google strips most special characters from the text they index so it's not a good tool for many troubleshooting-related tasks, such as finding out what the variable "$-" is in perl, or searching for error output that is loaded with special characters.

Is there a good way to search for such content on the web?

This question is related to the following question: Looking for special characters in Google

Answer

dncrane picture dncrane · Nov 22, 2011

This search engine was made to solve exactly the kind of problem you're having: http://symbolhound.com/

I am the developer of SymbolHound.

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