כמה פעמים יצא לכם לחשוב על כל הסימני הפיסוק שקיימים ב ASCII ואנחנו משתמשים בהם בעת כתיבת קוד (לא משנה באיזה שפת תיכנות).
לכן מצורפת טבלה המכילה את כל הסימנים שמותיהם הרשמיים וכל השמות המקובלים בצד אחד ובצד שני שמות פחות מקובלים אבל עדיין בשימוש.
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| Common Names | Rare Names |
| ! | exclamation mark
bang
pling
excl
not
shriek | | factorial
exclam
smash
cuss
boing
yell | wow
hey
wham
eureka
spark-spot
soldier
control | |
| " | quotation marks
quote
double quote | | literal mark
double-glitch
dieresis
dirk | rabbit-ears
double prime | |
| # | | hash
pound sign
number sign
pound | sharp
crunch
hex
mesh | | | grid
crosshatch
octothorpe
flash
square
pig-pen | tictactoe
scratchmark
thud
thump
splat | |
| $ | dollar sign
dollar | | currency symbol
buck
cash
string | escape
ding
cache
big money | |
| % | percent sign
mod
grapes | double-oh-seven |
| & | ampersand
amp
amper
and
and sign | address
reference
andpersand
bitand
background
pretzel |
| ' | apostrophe
single quote
quote | | prime
glitch
tick
irk | pop
spark
closing single quotation mark
acute accent | |
| ( ) | opening / closing parenthesis
left / right paren
left / right parenthesis
left / right
open / close
open / close paren
paren / thesis | so/already
lparen/rparen
opening/closing parenthesis
opening/closing round bracket
left/right round bracket
wax/wane
parenthisey/unparenthisey
left/right ear |
| [ ] | opening / closing bracket
left / right bracket
left / right square bracket
bracket / unbracket | square / unsquare
u turn / u turn back |
| { } | opening / closing brace
open / close brace
left / right brace
left / right squiggly
left / right squiggly bracket/brace
left / right curly bracket/brace | brace / unbrace
curly / uncurly
leftit / rytit
left / right squirrelly
embrace / bracelet |
| < > | less / greater than
bra / ket
left / right angle
left / right angle bracket
left / right broket | from / into (or towards)
read from / write to
suck / blow
comes-from / gozinta
in / out
crunch / zap
tic / tac
angle / right angle |
| * | asterisk
star
splat | |
| + | plus
add | cross
intersection |
| , | comma | cedilla
tail |
| - | dash
hyphen
minus | worm
option
dak
bithorpe |
| . | period
dot
point
decimal point | radix point
full stop
spot |
| / | slash
stroke
slant
forward slash | diagonal
solidus
over
slak
virgule
slat |
| \ | | backslash
hack
whack
escape
reverse slash | slosh
backslant
backwhack | | bash
reverse slant
reversed virgule
backslat |
| : | colon | dots
two-spot |
| ; | semicolon
semi | weenie
hybrid
pit-thwong |
| = | equals
gets
takes | quadrathorpe
half-mesh |
| ? | question mark
query
ques | | quiz
whatmark
what
wildchar | huh
hook
buttonhook
hunchback | |
| @ | at sign
at
strudel | | each
vortex
whorl
whirlpool
cyclone | snail
ape
cat
rose
cabbage
commercial at | |
| ^ | circumflex
caret
hat
control
uparrow | xor sign
chevron
shark (or shark-fin)
to the
fang
pointer |
| _ | underline
underscore
underbar
under | score
backarrow
skid
flatworm |
| ` | grave accent
backquote
left quote
left single quote
open quote
grave | | backprime
backspark
unapostrophe
birk
blugle | back tick
back glitch
push
opening single quote
quasiquote | |
| | | bar
or
or-bar
v-bar
pipe
vertical bar | vertical line
gozinta
thru
pipesinta
spike |
| ~ | tilde
squiggle
twiddle
not | approx
wiggle
swung dash
enyay
sqiggle (sic) |