Typing the tilde ~ character in DOS

special-characters dos tilde
Agifoto picture Agifoto · May 8, 2009 · Viewed 14.6k times · Source

In my DOS prompt I have to put in a tilde (~) character to open any files.

For some reason it won't show up in the DOS box/prompt.

Is there any form of Ctrl shortcut key thing that could get me to typing a ~ character?

It's only the DOS prompt that won't recognize that key is what gets me the most though.

Answer

RichieHindle picture RichieHindle · May 8, 2009

Hold down the Alt key and type 0126 (zero one two six) on the numeric keypad. That is the ascii value of that character.

GWBasic:

10 a$="~"
20 ? asc(a$)
run
126

In DOS you need to begin with a 0 + value you need for other symbols and it only works on the numeric keypad.

Related questions

Remove all special characters with RegExp

I would like a RegExp that will remove all special characters from a string. I am trying something like this but it doesn’t work in IE7, though it works in Firefox. var specialChars = "!@#$^&%*()+=-[]\/{}|:<>?,."; for (var …

Read More
Remove all special characters except space from a string using JavaScript

I want to remove all special characters except space from a string using JavaScript. For example, abc's test#s should output as abcs tests.

Read More
Insert text with single quotes in PostgreSQL

I have a table test(id,name). I need to insert values like: user's log, 'my user', customer's. insert into test values (1,'user's log'); insert into test values (2,''my users''); insert into test values (3,'customer's'); I am getting an error …

Read More