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 data 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 vaiable

$

Dollar Sign

U+0024

Schema

Represents the start of a schema identifier

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