QUESTION MARK


Meaning of QUESTION MARK in English

< character > "?", ASCII character 63.

Common names: query; ITU-T : question mark; ques . Rare: whatmark; INTERCAL : what; wildchar; huh; hook; buttonhook; hunchback.

Question mark is used, along with colon for C 's lazy triadic "if" operator (similar to the IIF function in Visual Basic ). The expression x?y:z evaluates x, then if x is true it returns y else it returns z.

In Unix shell file name patterns, question mark matches any single character.

(2003-06-17)

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