A character denotes any alphabet, digit or special symbol used
to represent information.
Letters
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Digits
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Uppercase A...Z
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All Decimal digits 0...9
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Lowercase a...z
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Character
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Sign
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,
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comma
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.
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period
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;
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semicolon
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:
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colon
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?
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question mark
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'
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apostrophe
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"
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quotation mark
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!
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exclamation mark
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vertical bar
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/
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slash
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\
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backslash
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~
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tilde
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_
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underscore
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$
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dollar sign
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%
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percent sign
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&
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ampersand
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^
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caret
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*
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asterisk
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-
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minus sign
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+
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plus sign
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<
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opening angle bracket (or less than sign)
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>
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closing angle bracket (or greater than sign)
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(
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left parenthesis
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)
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right parenthesis
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[
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left bracket
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]
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right bracket
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{
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left brace
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}
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right brace
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#
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number sign
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White Spaces
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Blank Spaces
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Horizontal tab
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Carrige return
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New line
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Form feed
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