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OCR: Metacharacters Metacharacters are special characters used to represent nonprinting, control, or wildcard characters when searching Metacharacters Unspecified character...... Carriage return ............ Line break. ............ Tab Soft hyphen. Nonbreaking hyphen ...... Computer-inserted hyphen. ...^.c Caret Question mark .......? Nonbreaking space ......... White space or tab. ^W Thin space En space Em space En Em dash For example. , if you want to search foform andfrom for typos without doing two separate searches search for ?m becaus the metacharacter wildcard any character. he search would find all words beginning witlf having two other letters and ending im withf