In the argument list of a mathematical function, a semicolon may be used to separate variables and parameters. In MATLAB, the semicolon can be used as a row separator when defining a vector or matrix (whereas a comma separates the columns within a row of a vector or matrix) or to execute a command silently, without displaying the resulting output value in the console. In Microsoft Excel, the semicolon is used as a list separator, especially in cases where the decimal separator is a comma, such as 0,32 3,14 4,50, instead of 0.32, 3.14, 4.50. The semicolon is commonly used as parts of emoticons, in order to indicate winking. For example, multiple e-mail addresses in the "To" field in some e-mail clients have to be delimited by a semicolon. The semicolon is often used to separate elements of a string of text. The EBCDIC semicolon character is 94 or 0x5E. In computer systems, the semicolon is represented by Unicode and ASCII character 59 or 0x3B. Other languages (for instance, some assembly languages and LISP dialects) use semicolons to mark the beginning of comments. In other languages, semicolons are required after every statement (such as in PHP, Java, ActionScript (optional in ActionScript 3), Lingo Script and the C family). In computer programming, the semicolon is often used to separate multiple statements (for example, Pascal, SQL and Perl). To indicate a long pause or separate sections, each with commas (the semicolon's purpose in English), Greek uses an interpunct (
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In Greek and Church Slavonic, a semicolon indicates a question, similar to a Latin question mark.
Values of semicolon and greek question mark serial#
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The various implementations of the semicolon in English include:
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They have no spaces before them, but one or two spaces after. Semicolons are followed by a lower case letter, unless that letter begins a proper noun.