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Left curly bracket
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The left curly bracket { is defined in ASCII as having the value is 123 (hexadecimal $7B). In Pascal it always appears in conjunction with a corresponding right curly bracket constituting a pair. Such a pair is used to:
- write block comments
- FPC and Delphi interpret such comments with an initial dollar sign as compiler directives, for example
{$longStrings on} - integrated development environments such as Lazarus interpret block comments with an initial percent sign as IDE directives, for instance
{%H-}
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