A simple {} question

[_Zorro_]

Anyone could tell me how do you call those in english? "{}". Braces came to me, but I'm not sure and after a google search less sure :) Thanks!

[Tim Carmichael]

I was always taught (and this is going back over 30 years) that they are brace brackets. Or... also known as 'curly brackets', as opposed to '()' being 'round brackets' and '[]' being square brackets. Tim

[Iain Clarke Warrior Programmer]

Squiggly brackets! Iain

[Eddie_NG]

Parentheses I believe. Edit: Oh, Read the topic wrong, Parentheses are ().

[Nish Nishant]

Braces is what I've been using too.

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[_Zorro_]

Ok, I'll use "brackets", it's for a function. If they don't like it, well, too bad :) Thanks!

[Tarakeshwar Reddy]

Curly brackets or braces Wikipedia[^]

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[Eddie_NG]

Curly brackets or braces should do :P

[Shog9 0]

Curly brackets / curly braces. No preference between the two. FWIW: () == parentheses / parens [] == square brackets (never braces)

[Dan Neely]

And don't forget when dealing with html/xml: <> == Angle brackets, not less/greater than signs. -- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.

[Jon Sagara]

Curly braces

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[James R Twine]

My $.02...      **()**   -   Parentheses or Parens      **[]**   -   Brackets or Square Brackets      **{}**   -   Curly Braces or Braces (and never BEGIN/END :omg: :))      **<>**   -   Angle Brackets    Open and Close are used to describe which one when talking about a specific character.  For example, **[** is Open Bracket, and **)** is Close Paren.  Except when talking about the Angle Brackets, where it becomes Less-Than and Greater-Than***.  If you have a DOS/*nix CLI background, you might call them Redirect-In and Redirect-Out depending on the context.    Peace! *** At least, I have never heard anyone say "open angle bracket" and "closed angle bracket" before.

-=- James

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[_Zorro_]

After seeing some pics at google I imagined that ;P

[David Crow]

Curly brackets or curly braces.

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[Matt Gerrans]

Curlies.

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[Ed Poore]

They're ()s

[Ed Poore]

Now did you mean that as a joke :suss:, some people may not know what that's slang for.

[Chris Meech]

Great explanation, James. And now just to show how confusing Plain English can be, if I wanted to brace something, I'd use a bracket, sometimes even an angled bracket. But I must admit that I've never braced anything with a parentheses. (Although I've been know to use parentheses to bracket sentences.) :)

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[Eytukan]

Yup my maths teacher used to call it like that :). Flower Brackets :-D. Funny

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[Pete OHanlon]

OK - to compound this. The forward slash / is called a virgule. Now, if you use this in a more horizontal fashion, e.g. in a fraction, then it's called a Solidus. Well, there you go, English for the terrified.

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