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).

String.split() at a meta character +

I'm making a simple program that will deal with equations from a String input of the equation When I run …

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jQuery - Replace all parentheses in a string

I tried this: mystring= mystring.replace(/"/g, "").replace(/'/g, "").replace("(", "").replace(")", ""); It works for all double and single quotes …

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How to turn off setting for visible special characters In outlook new email message?

Somehow I turned on the display paragraph marks, spaces, and other special characters in my outlook 2007 new email messages and …

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Java: What does ~ mean

In this Java source code I have this line: if ((modifiers & ~KeyEvent.SHIFT_MASK) != 0) .... What does the tilde ~ mean?

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Python to show special characters

I know there are tons of threads regarding this issue but I have not managed to find one which solves …

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Post UTF-8 encoded data to server loses certain characters

I am working on project which includes communication of the server (JavaEE app) and client (Android app). XML is sent …

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Validating Alpha-Numeric values with all Special Characters

i want to validate my text field with below: 1. alpha-numeric 2. And all special characters i am not good in regex …

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How to match with regex all special chars except "-" in PHP?

How can I match all the “special” chars (like +_*&^%$#@!~) except the char - in PHP? I know that \W …

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What should be the valid characters in usernames?

Many web based user authentication systems don't allow usernames that contain characters other than letters, numbers and underscores. Could there …

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Check NSString for special characters

I want to check an NSString for special characters, i.e. anything except a-z, A-Z and 0-9. I don't need …

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