Special Characters

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Special Characters

Certain nonalpha and nonnumeric characters like * and / have special meaning within Qedit:

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? Means Help, Nonprinting Characters, Alphanumeric (in Patterns) or Optional (in Regexp)

$ Means Hex, Memory Lock, List Option, Previous File or End-Of-Line (in Regexp)

^ Means Findup, Control-Char, Start-of-line (in Regexp) or Negate (in Regexp)

. Means Nonprinting, Reset, Decimal Point or Any Character (in Regexp)

! Means Shell Script or Too Long

% Means Octal or String

* Means Current, Refresh, Multiply or Quantifier (in Regexp)

\ Means Previous, String, Literal Match (in Regexp) or Special Characters (in Regexp)

/ Means Prompt, Range Delimiter, Stop, Exit, or Divide

[ Means FIRST, [default] or Start Class (in Regexp)

] Means LAST or End Class (in Regexp)

{ } Are for Comments or Indentation

@ Means ALL

& Means Literal Match

: Means Shell Commands or String

; Means Multiple Commands

, Means a List

= Means Copy or Calculate

< Means Move, I/O Redirection or Backward Page

> Means Forward Page, I/O Redirection, Modify or Qhelp

" Means String

( Means Start Parameter, Command or Subpattern (in Regexp)

) Means End Parameter, Command or Subpattern (in Regexp)

+ Means Ahead Some Lines, Add or Quantifier (in Regexp)

- Means Back Some Lines, Minus or Range (in Regexp)

# Means Numeric Pattern

~ Means Spaces (Pattern), Recent Page or Field

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