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About language punctuators

There are several language punctuators in Flash. The most common type of punctuators are semicolons (;), colons (:), parentheses [()] and braces ({}). Each of these punctuators has a special meaning in the Flash language and helps define data types, terminate statements or structure ActionScript. The following sections discuss how to use the punctuators in your code.

For more information on language punctuators, see the following topics:

• Semicolons and colons
• Curly braces
• Parentheses
• About literals
• About comments

For more information on the dot (.) operator and array access ([]) operators, see Using dot and array access operators. For information on white space and code formatting, see Formatting ActionScript syntax.

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