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How do you say ~!@#$%

Brian Olore on April 27, 2020

I had a random thought the other day regarding the characters on the keyboard that us developers use every day. I realized that we probably have ve...
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Valentin Baca • • Edited 
`    tick, backquote
#    hash
%    mod, remainder
^    xor ("ex-or"), hat
&    (in C) "address of" 
*    (in C) "pointer to", "pointer of", "array of", "dereference", "what x points to" , times (in Math), "any number of" (in Regex)
+    "one or more of" (in Regex)
-    dash, hyphen, minus
[    open square bracket
]    closed square bracket
[0]    "index zero"
{    open/left curly bracket, curly brace
}    close/right curly bracket, curly brace
<    less than, open/left angle bracket
>    greater than, close/right angle bracket 
.    dot, period, stop
?  question mark
|    pipe, vertical bar
\    backslash
/    slash, forward slash
,    comma