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| ☜ | Program Punctuation1984 Version of ANSI Standard | ☞ | ||||
The following special characters may occur in programs.
Unary Arithmetic Operators
| + | plus |
| - | negate |
Unary Logical Operator
| ' | not |
Binary Arithmetic Operators
| + | addition |
| - | subtraction |
| * | multiplication |
| / | division |
| \ | division with integer quotient |
| # | modulo |
Binary Relational Operators
| < | numeric less than |
| '< | numeric greater than or equal |
| > | numeric greater than |
| '> | numeric less than or equal |
| = | string identity |
| '= | string non-identity |
| [ | string contains |
| '[ | string non-contains |
| ] | string follows |
| '] | string non-follows |
| ? | string pattern match |
| '? | string pattern non-match |
Binary Logical Operators
| & | and |
| '& | nand |
| ! | or |
| '! | nor |
Binary String Operator
| _ | concatenation |
Delimiters
| , | argument separation, subscript separation |
| = | value assignment |
| : | post-conditional expression, subargument separation |
| ( ) | grouping |
| @ | indirection |
| " | string literals |
| . | decimal point in numeric literals |
| ^ | preceding routine name in DO, GOTO |
| E | preceding exponent in numeric literals |
| ; | comment |
| space | separating command words |
Prefixes
| ^ | global variable names |
| $ | functions, special variable names |
| % | available in names of the programmer’s choice |
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Copyright © Examples: 1995-2024 Ed de Moel;
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