question about usage

[Rene Stephenson]

Punctuation is typically referred to as "special characters" - whereas alphanumeric means it's alphabetic or numeric, e.g.: letter or number only.

 
Rene L. Stephenson


----- Original Message ----
From: Mike Wickham <mewickham at compuserve.com>

Others have mentioned alphanumerics as including both letters and numbers, 
but doesn't it also include punctuation?

Mike Wickham