curly braces
Squiggly bracket pair
Curly braces are the punctuation marks and , used in pairs to enclose material.
In writing, they group items or indicate optional elements.
In programming, curly braces define code blocks, objects, and data structures: The function's body goes inside curly braces.
Also called braces or, in computing, squiggly brackets.
- delimitersCharacters marking boundaries
- punctuationWritten clarity symbols
- charactersPersons in a narrative
- scopeExtent or range
- enclosureConfined, bordered space
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- bracketsparentheses, parenthesis, angle bracket, square brackets, square bracket
- wildcardswildcard, asterisk, question mark, glob, square brackets
- punctuationperiod, comma, colon, apostrophe, semicolon
- ASCII characterscomma, period, space, question mark, exclamation mark
- math symbolsplus, minus, equals, divide, multiply
- operatorsplus, minus, negation, equals, not
curly bracesparentheses
Curved enclosing punctuation marks
square brackets · round brackets · angle brackets · chevrons · brackets
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Unencoded readable characters
semicolon · period · comma · line break · whitespace
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