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The Form and Menu Language

Special characters

Special characters in FMLI scripts are:

double quote " right-angle bracket >
single quote ' left-angle bracket <
backslash \ <newline>
backquote ` <space>
dollar sign $ <tab>
vertical bar | left brace {
ampersand & right brace }
semicolon ; (in the rmenu
pound sign # descriptor only)
(in the first non- integer 2 2
whitespace column (when followed by >)
of a line)
dollar dollar $$

Some FMLI built-in utilities, such as regex(1fmli) and fmlgrep(1fmli), have other special characters.


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