Editing Semicolon (section)

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The semicolon is often used to separate elements of a string of text. For example, multiple e-mail addresses in the "To" field in some e-mail clients have to be [[Delimiter|delimited]] by a semicolon.

In [[Microsoft Excel]], the semicolon is used as a list separator, especially in cases where the decimal separator is a comma, such as <code> 0,32; 3,14; 4,50</code>, instead of <code>0.32, 3.14, 4.50</code>.

In [[Lua (programming language)|Lua]],<ref name='lua'>{{cite web |url=https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#3.4.9 |title=Lua 5.4 Reference Manual |at=3.4.9 – Table Constructors |date=13 January 2022 |archive-date=1 October 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20221001132750/https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html |url-status=live}}</ref> semicolons or commas can be used to separate table elements.

In [[MATLAB]] and [[GNU Octave]],<ref name='octave'>{{cite web |url=https://docs.octave.org/interpreter/Simple-Examples.html#Creating-a-Matrix |title=GNU Octave (version 7.3.0) |at=1.2.2 Creating a Matrix |date=2 November 2022 |archive-date=28 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221128221701/https://docs.octave.org/interpreter/Simple-Examples.html#Creating-a-Matrix |url-status=live |publisher=GNU Octave |access-date=28 November 2022 }}</ref> the semicolon can be used as a row separator when defining a vector or matrix (whereas a comma separates the columns within a row of a vector or matrix) or to execute a command silently, without displaying the resulting output value in the console.

In [[HTML]], a semicolon is used to terminate a [[character entity reference]], either named or numeric.<ref name='mdn'>{{cite web |url=https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Entity |title=Entity |date=21 September 2022 |website=[[MDN Web Docs|MDN]] |archive-date=25 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221125232110/https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Entity |url-status=live}}</ref> The declarations of a style attribute in [[Cascading Style Sheets]] (CSS) are separated and terminated with semicolons.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_syntax.asp |title=CSS Syntax |website=[[W3Schools]] |archive-date=25 February 2021 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210225234210/https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_syntax.asp |url-status=live}}</ref>

The file system of [[RSX-11]] and [[OpenVMS]], [[Files-11]], uses semicolons to indicate a [[Versioning file system|file's version number]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.alticore.eu/cgi-bin/conan?key=Ext_File_Specs~Using~File_Specification_Differences&explode=yes&title=VMS%20Help |title=Ext File Specs, Using File Specification Differences |website=VMS Help |publisher=[[Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche]] |archive-date=7 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807022056/http://www.alticore.eu/cgi-bin/conan?key=Ext_File_Specs~Using~File_Specification_Differences&explode=yes&title=VMS%20Help |url-status=dead}}</ref> The semicolon is permitted in [[long filename]]s in the [[Microsoft Windows]] file systems [[NTFS]] and [[VFAT]], but not in its [[8.3 filename|short names]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/msi/filename |title=Filename - Win32 Apps |website=Microsoft Learn |publisher=Microsoft |archive-date=28 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190828072842/https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/msi/filename |url-status=live |date=31 May 2018}}</ref>

In some [[delimiter-separated values]] file formats, the semicolon is used as the separator character, as an alternative to [[comma-separated values]].