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metacharacter

character that has a special meaning to a computer program (e.g. a shell interpreter or a regular expression engine)
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metacharacter

Summary

metacharacter ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (31 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • metacharacter's subclass of is recorded as character[2].
  • metacharacter's subclass of is recorded as sentinel value[3].
  • metacharacter's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0l204[4].
  • metacharacter's facet of is recorded as syntax[5].
  • metacharacter's facet of is recorded as syntax[6].
  • metacharacter's partially coincident with is recorded as escape character[7].
  • metacharacter's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 15830363[8].

Why It Matters

metacharacter ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (31 views/month).[1] metacharacter has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). metacharacter. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/metacharacter
MLA “metacharacter.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/metacharacter.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_metacharacter_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{metacharacter}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/metacharacter}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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