Structural Characters and Literals

Structural characters define the structure of data within an Internet Object document. Below are the structural characters used in the Internet Object format:

Symbol	Character(s)	Unicode	Description	Notes
,	Comma	U+002C	Separator between values	Used to separate items in arrays and objects
~	Tilde	U+007E	Record delimiter in collections	Indicates the start of a new record in collection
:	Colon	U+003A	Key-value separator	Separates keys from their corresponding values
[	Open Square Bracket	U+005B	Start of an array	Begins an array structure
]	Close Square Bracket	U+005D	End of an array	Ends an array structure
{	Open Curly Bracket	U+007B	Start of an object	Begins an object or dictionary
}	Close Curly Bracket	U+007D	End of an object	Ends an object or dictionary
---	Triple Hyphens	U+002D	Header and sections separator	Separates different sections of the document
#	Hash	U+0023	Comment start	Initiates a single-line comment
"	Double Quote	U+0022	String delimiter	Encloses string values
'	Single Quote	U+0027	String delimiter	Alternative to double quotes for strings
@	At Symbol	U+0040	Variable	Represents the start of variable
$	Dollar Sign	U+0024	Schema	Represents the start of a schema identifier