Unsupported titles/Square brackets
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Translingual
Punctuation mark
- Encloses a number of changes in quoted text.
- Paraphrase inserted to clarify context.
- [Luke,] I am your father.
- Comments about alterations.
- The message said: "Contact them ASAP, their e-mail is [omitted], that's the chance of your life!"
- Orthographical alterations.
- He said, "[d]on't do it!"
- (papyrology, epigraphy) Restored writing that was present in the original text but has since become damaged or broken away.
- See […] for omissions in quoted text.
- Paraphrase inserted to clarify context.
- (linguistics) Encloses a phonetic transcription.
- (computing, programming) Encloses optional parameters in syntax help.
- DROP TABLE tbl_name [, tbl_name] ...
Derived terms
- […] (used when omitting a section in quoted text)
Symbol
- (mathematics) Encloses a mathematical phrase which has increased operator precedence.
- (mathematics) Encloses a polynomial ring.
- (mathematics) Encloses a matrix or vector.
- (mathematics) Singles out a digit or portion of an equation, for commentary.
- 1962, Jack Frohlichstein, Mathematical Fun, Games and Puzzles (in English), Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 47:
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- (mathematics) denote the least common multiple of two integers.
- [4,6]=12
- (mathematics) Alternative form of ⌊ ⌋
- (programming) In a number of programming languages, encloses each value of an array.
- t[1] = "one"
- t[2] = "two"
- (regular expressions) Matches a single character that is contained within the brackets, including ranges.
[abc]
matches "a", "b", or "c"[a-z]
specifies a range which matches any lowercase letter from "a" to "z"[^abc]
matches any character other than "a", "b", or "c".[^a-z]
matches any single character that is not a lowercase letter from "a" to "z"
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