Top "Special-characters" questions

Special characters (as they apply to programming) are language-specific reserved characters or symbols used to accomplish a specific task (e.g. wildcard characters, data type indicators, escape characters, etc).

What is the difference between \r and \n?

How are \r and \n different? I think it has something to do with Unix vs. Windows vs. Mac, but …

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Matching special characters and letters in regex

I am trying to validate a string, that should contain letters numbers and special characters &-._ only. For that …

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c# replace \" characters

I am sent an XML string that I'm trying to parse via an XmlReader and I'm trying to strip out …

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Allowed characters in filename

Where can I find a list of allowed characters in filenames, depending on the operating system? (e.g. on Linux, …

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li:before{ content: "■"; } How to Encode this Special Character as a Bullit in an Email Stationery?

After proudly coloring my liststyle bullet without any image url or span tags, via: ul{ list-style: none; padding:0; margin:0; } li{ …

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jQuery: Check if special characters exists in string

I know this question is asked more often here on Stack, but I can't seem to get a straight answer …

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HTML for the Pause symbol in audio and video control

I'm trying to find the Unicode symbol to make a button display the Unicode pause symbol. I was able to …

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How to use tick / checkmark symbol (✓) instead of bullets in unordered list?

I have a list where I want to add tick symbol before list text. Is there any CSS that can …

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The "backspace" escape character '\b': unexpected behavior?

So I'm finally reading through K&R, and I learned something within the first few pages, that there is …

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