# TangibleCharacters

A list of punctuation characters to treat as part of the word, rather than as word boundaries. By default, Eduction treats almost all punctuation characters as word boundaries.

NOTE: You cannot specify spaces, returns, and tabs as `TangibleCharacters`.

This parameter has no effect when MatchWholeWord is set to `False`.

For more information on using `TangibleCharacters` to specify punctuation characters to match, or to match punctuation at the start of a match, see Match Special Characters.

Type: | String
Default: | None
Required: | No
Configuration Section: | Eduction
Example: | `TangibleCharacters=-/\@`
See Also: | MatchWholeWord TokenWithPunctuation

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