Metacharacter

A metacharacter is a character that has a special meaning to a computer program, such as a shell interpreter or a regular expression (regex) engine. For instance, in XML, the < character is interpreted not as ordinary text (in which it would be the less-than sign), but rather as a metacharacter signalling the beginning of an XML tag.

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