From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

I don't know for sure but I would guess it's a regular expression kinda
thingamajickie...


Antti Kurenniemi

"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:4676ada9$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Could someone help this non programmer?  In several MS Technotes, these
> characters are referred to as null chars
>
> null characters ("[~]")
>
> (I presume they mean square brackets, doublequotes and tilde, not the
> parens?) What language/convention is this from?
>
> -out of touch

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