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Situations like that are exactly why I try to avoid using the "~" character in strings that anybody else might have to type in. A lot of people have no idea what "tilde" means, or where the ~ key is located. The same problem crops up with ampersands, carets, and "#", for which nobody can seem to agree on a name.


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