In computer science, an illegal character is a character that is not allowed by a certain programming language, protocol, or program.[1] To avoid illegal characters, some languages may use an escape character which is a backslash followed by another character.[2]
Examples
Windows
In the Windows operating system, illegal characters in file and folder names include colons, brackets, question marks,[3] and null characters.[4]
Character | Name |
---|---|
< | less than |
> | greater than |
: | colon |
" | speech marks |
/ | forward slash |
\ | backslash |
| | pipe |
? | question mark |
* | asterisk |
References
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