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 to escape dollar sign ($) in a string using perl regex

I'm trying to escape several special characters in a given string using perl regex. It works fine for all characters …

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What's the difference between \n and \r\n?

They both mean "new line" but when is one used over the other?

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Change foreign characters to their roman equivalent

I am using php and I was wondering if there was a predefined way to convert foreign characters to their …

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How to search a string with spaces and special characters in vi editor

I edit in the vi editor. I want to search in the text for a specific phrase, e.g "Dec 1 15:13:00". …

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special characters (emoticons) in text file

I have a txt file of an conversation exported from WhatsApp. WhatsApp supports emoticons in their conversation, and the exported …

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twig striptags and html special chars

I am using twig to render a view and I am using the striptags filter to remove html tags. However, …

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How can I decode HTML entities?

Here's a quick Perl question: How can I convert HTML special characters like ü or ' to normal ASCII …

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How do I convert special characters using java?

I have strings like: Avery® Laser & Inkjet Self-Adhesive I need to convert them to Avery Laser & Inkjet …

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How to insert special HTML-symbols with HAML

When I'm saying: %p= item.price + " dollars" I'm getting 50&nbsp ;dollars instead of having non-breakable space symbol. …

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Eclipse character encoding

I am using Scanner to scan a .txt document in Java. However, when I open the .txt document in Eclipse, …

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