Editing Delimiter (section)

===Bracket delimiters===
Bracket delimiters, also called block delimiters, region delimiters, or balanced delimiters, mark both the start and end of a region of text.<ref name="BalaDelm">{{cite book | last = Friedl | first = Jeffrey E. F. | title = Mastering Regular Expressions: Powerful Techniques for Perl and Other Tools | publisher = O'Reilly | year = 2002| isbn = 0-596-00289-0}} p. 319</ref><ref name="Scott000">{{cite book
| title     = Programming Language Pragmatics
| first     = Michael Lee
| last      = Scott
| publisher = Morgan Kaufmann
| year      = 1999
| isbn      = 1-55860-442-1
}}</ref>

Common examples of bracket delimiters include:<ref name="programmingperl">{{cite book | title=Programming Perl |edition=Third | publisher=O'Reilly |date=July 2000 | isbn=0-596-00027-8 | last1=Wall | first1=Larry | first2=Jon |last2=Orwant | author-link1=Larry Wall | author-link3=Jon Orwant }}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Delimiters
! style="text-align:left" | Description
|-
! <code>(</code> <code>)</code>
| [[Bracket#Parentheses|Parentheses]]. The [[Lisp (programming language)|Lisp]] programming language syntax is cited as recognizable primarily by its use of parentheses.<ref name="Kaufmann000">{{cite book
| title     = Computer-Aided Reasoning: An Approach
| first     = Matt
| last      = Kaufmann
| publisher = Springer
| year      = 2000
| isbn      = 0-7923-7744-3
}}p. 3</ref>
|-
! <code>{</code> <code>}</code>
| Braces (also called [[Bracket#Curly brackets|curly brackets]]<ref name="curly_brace_cstyle">{{cite book | last = Meyer | first = Mark | title = Explorations in Computer Science | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford Oxfordshire | year = 2005 | isbn = 978-0-7637-3832-7 }} references C-style programming languages prominently featuring curly brackets and semicolons.</ref>).
|-
! <code>[</code> <code>]</code>
| Brackets (commonly used to denote a subscript).
|-
! <code>&lt;</code> <code>&gt;</code>
| [[Bracket#Angle brackets|Angle brackets]].<ref name="id_1268443793898_27">{{cite book | last = Dilligan | first = Robert | title = Computing in the Web Age | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford Oxfordshire | year = 1998 | isbn = 978-0-306-45972-6 }}Describes syntax and delimiters used in HTML.</ref>
|-
! <code>"</code> <code>"</code>
| commonly used to denote [[string literal]]s.<ref name="id_1268443910269_75">{{cite book | last = Schwartz | first = Randal |author-link=Randal Schwartz | title = Learning Perl | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford Oxfordshire | year = 2005 | isbn = 978-0-596-10105-3 | url = https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780596101053 }}Describes [[string literal]]s.</ref>
|-
! <code>'</code> <code>'</code>
| commonly used to denote [[character literal]]s.<ref name="id_1268443910269_75"/>
|-
! <code><?</code> <code>?></code>
| used to indicate XML [[processing instruction]]s.<ref name="id_1268443998814_32">{{cite book | last = Watt | first = Andrew | title = Sams Teach Yourself Xml in 10 Minutes | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford Oxfordshire | year = 2003 | isbn = 978-0-672-32471-0 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/samsteachyoursel0000watt }} Describes XML processing instruction. p. 21.</ref>
|-
! <code>/*</code> <code>*/</code>
| used to denote [[comment (computer programming)|comment]]s in some programming languages.<ref name="id_1268444112328_77">{{cite book | last = Cabrera | first = Harold | title = C# for Java Programmers | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford Oxfordshire | year = 2002 | isbn = 978-1-931836-54-8 }} Describes single-line and multi-line comments. p. 72.</ref>
|-
! <code><%</code> <code>%></code>
| used in some [[web template]]s to specify language boundaries.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/jakartaee/pages/blob/master/spec/src/main/asciidoc/ServerPages.adoc#jakarta-server-pages-specification-version-40|title=Jakarta Server Pages Specification, Version 4.0akarta Server Pages Specification, Version 4.0|website=[[GitHub]] |access-date=2023-02-10}}</ref>
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