{"id":1523,"date":"2011-08-23T10:55:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T10:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/alphanumeric\/"},"modified":"2014-01-14T02:17:51","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T02:17:51","slug":"alphanumeric","status":"publish","type":"definition","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/930\/alphanumeric","title":{"rendered":"Alphanumeric"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"what_does_alphanumeric_mean\">What Does Alphanumeric Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Alphanumeric refers to a character set with alphabetic characters (A-Z) and numerals (0-9). Other characters also may be included in an alphanumeric character set. 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