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Right Square Bracket
- Unicode
- U+005D
- Category
- Punctuation
- HTML Entity
- ]
- CSS
- \005D
The right square bracket (]) closes what [ opened: an editor's insertion in a quote, a [sic], a citation number such as [12]. In mathematics ] closes an interval; in the French convention a reversed bracket marks an open end, so ]0, 1[ means the interval without 0 and 1. In formal English, square brackets also serve as the inner pair when one aside sits inside another (see Smith [2019], p. 4).
On US and UK keyboards ] has its own key right of [; with Shift the same key gives }. On iPhone it is on the #+= page, on Android on the =\< page.
On US and UK keyboards ] has its own key right of [; with Shift the same key gives }. On iPhone it is on the #+= page, on Android on the =\< page.
How to Type
- Windows
- ] key · Alt+93
- macOS
- ] key
- Linux
- ] key · Ctrl+Shift+U 5d
- HTML
- ]
In Programming
] ends array literals and index expressions (a[i]) and closes regex character classes ([0-9]). Bash tests close with ] or ]], Lua long strings with ]], and wiki markup closes links with ]]. Markdown pairs ] with a URL in parentheses: [text](url). C# and Rust close attributes with it ([Serializable], #[derive(Debug)]). Editors highlight the matching [, which is the fastest way to find a missing one.
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