{"id":1436,"date":"2021-11-24T13:14:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T13:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kalkus.dev\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2023-08-24T23:32:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T23:32:47","slug":"english-names-of-programming-special-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kalkus.dev\/blog\/2021\/11\/24\/english-names-of-programming-special-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"English names of programming special characters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many developers are not native English speakers. Some special characters used in programming may be difficult to remember. Here is a list of special characters used in programming with their names in English:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>{, }<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Braces, curly brackets<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>{<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Left brace<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>}<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Right brace<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>(, )<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Parentheses, round brackets<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>(<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Open \/ left bracket \/ parenthesis<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>)<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Close \/ right bracket \/ parenthesis<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>[, ]<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Square brackets, brackets<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>[<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Open \/ left bracket<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>]<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Close \/right bracket<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>!<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Exclamation mark<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>@<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>ampersand<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>*<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>asterisk<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>&#8211;<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Hyphen, dash<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>_<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>underscore<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>=<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Equal sign<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>:<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>colon<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>;<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>semicolon<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>,<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>comma<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>.<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Period, dot<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>&lt;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Less than, angle brackets<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>&gt;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Greater than, angle brackets<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>\/<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Forward slash<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>\\<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Backslash<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>~<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Tilde<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>`<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Grave accent, backtick, back quote<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many developers are not native English speakers. Some special characters used in programming may be difficult to remember. Here is a list of special characters used in programming with their names in English: {, } Braces, curly brackets { Left brace } Right brace (, ) Parentheses, round brackets ( Open \/ left bracket \/ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[202,1],"tags":[201],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalkus.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalkus.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalkus.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalkus.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalkus.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kalkus.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1439,"href":"https:\/\/kalkus.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions\/1439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalkus.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalkus.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalkus.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}