punctuation 0-9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z (all)
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Braces, also known as curly braces, look like this { }. Java uses them for surrounding the bodies of loops, methods and classes.
Other bracketing pairs to consider are:
| Various Bracketing Characters | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Appearance | HTML | Hex | |||
| parentheses | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) |
| brackets | [ | ] | [ | ] | [ | ] |
| braces | { | } | { | } | { | } |
| angle brackets | < | > | < | > | < | = |
| guillemots | « | » | « | » | « | » |
| arrows | ← | → | ← | → | ℐ | → |
| double arrows | ⇐ | ⇒ | ⇐ | ⇒ | ⇐ | ⇒ |
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