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Look up --, ---, ----, or —— in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
--, a string of two hyphen-minus characters or - -, may approximate or refer to:
- En dash (–)
- Em dash (—), as a typewriter approximation
- Sig dashes (--), the email and Usenet signature delimiter
- For Unix commands, used as a prefix for command options. By itself, it typically means the end of command options.
- Decrement operator in some programming languages
- Inline comments, commonly used in programming languages
- Emoticon, a pictorial representation of a facial expression in characters
See also[edit]
- Double hyphen (one above the other)
- - (disambiguation)
- HTML comment tag,
<!--
...-->
- Horizontal rule
- ASCII art
- // (disambiguation)
- *** (disambiguation)
- ?? (disambiguation)