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).

How should I escape commas and speech marks in CSV files so they work in Excel?

I'm generating a CSV file (delimited by commas rather than tabs). My users will most likely open the CSV file …

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JSTL escaping special characters

I have this weird issue with special characters. In JSP, I am using field name as id and the name …

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Characters allowed in GET parameter

Which characters are allowed in GET parameters without encoding or escaping them? I mean something like this: http://www.example.…

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Insert the carriage return character in vim

I'm editing a network protocol frame stored a file in Unix (\n newlines). I need to insert the carriage return …

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Regex - Without Special Characters

I'm using regex to validate username ^[a-zA-Z]+\.[a-zA-Z]{4,10}^' Unfortunately it doesn't affect if the the value contains special characters …

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Java- Extract part of a string between two special characters

I have been trying to figure out how to extract a portion of a string between two special characters ' …

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single quotes escape during string insertion into a database

Insertion fails when "'" is used. example string is: He's is a boy. I've attempted to skip the "'" using …

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How to detect line breaks in a text area input?

What is the best way to check the text area value for line breaks and then calculate the number of …

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Removing special Characters from string

I am using a function for removing special character from strings. function clean($string) { $string = str_replace('', '-', $string); // …

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Is a colon `:` safe for friendly-URL use?

We are designing a URL system that will specify application sections as words separated by slashes. Specifically, this is in …

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