What do you call the terms that are used in coding to separate words and phrases ?
I. Some names are not typically ASCII and are already found in everyday use:
() are parentheses
‘ is an apostrophe
: a colon
; a semicolon
, a comma
! an exclamation mark
? a question mark
. period or full stop (note: it is an interpunct when the dot separating 2 words is above the line)
“ “ are called quote, quotation marks (speech marks)
- is a hyphen while _‖is an underscore (like in music) and – a dash
> and < are known as respectively greater than and less signs
* an asterisk
~ is a tilde
% a percent (or modulo)
‰ a permil
Difficult to represent, a space is a void between signs.
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