colon and pattern matching

[Pickering, John (NORBORD)]

What does the colon mean in pattern matching?

In my manual it is not in the list of non-alpha and non-numeric special
characters which match themselves, it is not in the list of defined
metacharacters and it is not in the list of metacharacters reserved for
future expansion.

And matchpattern("ABC:DEF","^^^:^^^") is false :-(

John Pickering
Toronto
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