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Full Stop
- Unicode
- U+002E
- Category
- Punctuation
- HTML Entity
- .
- CSS
- \002E
The full stop (.) — called a period in American English and a dot in web addresses and file names — ends a statement and marks abbreviations (Dr., etc.). In English-speaking countries it is also the decimal point (3.14), while much of continental Europe and Latin America writes a decimal comma and uses the dot to group thousands (1.000). Three dots in a row stand in for the ellipsis, which also exists as a single character (…).
The full stop has its own key right of the comma, left of / on US and UK keyboards; the decimal key on the numeric keypad types it too when the system region uses a decimal point. On iPhone and Android it is on the main letter keyboard or the first symbols page, and a double tap on Space at the end of a sentence inserts a period and a space.
The full stop has its own key right of the comma, left of / on US and UK keyboards; the decimal key on the numeric keypad types it too when the system region uses a decimal point. On iPhone and Android it is on the main letter keyboard or the first symbols page, and a double tap on Space at the end of a sentence inserts a period and a space.
How to Type
- Windows
- . key · Alt+46
- macOS
- . key
- Linux
- . key · Ctrl+Shift+U 2e
- HTML
- .
In Programming
The dot is the member-access operator in most languages (user.name, obj.method()) and the string-concatenation operator in PHP and Perl. In regular expressions an unescaped . matches any character except a line break, so a literal dot is written \.. File names use it before the extension (photo.jpg), Unix marks hidden files with it (.env), and . and .. are the current and parent folder; domain names and IPv4 addresses are split by dots.
Tags
full stop
period
dot
dot symbol
decimal point
alt 46
keyboard symbol
punctuation
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