Curly bracket
Alternatively
referred to as an open brace, close brace, and squiggly
brackets, curly brackets are found on the same keys as the open ( [ )
and close ( ] ) brackets on US keyboards. These keys are commonly used in
curly bracket languages such as C,
Java, Perl, and
PHP to enclose groups of statements. Below is an
example of how an enclosed statement looks like in Perl.
$value = 0;
do {
$value++;
if ($value >=
10) {
print "Value is equal to or greater than 10. Ending.";
exit;
}
} until ($value >= 100);
In the above example are two examples of enclose statements using curly brackets. The first group is the do loop that continues to increase the value of $value up to 100. Within that group is the if statement that checks to see if $value is greater than or equal to 10 and if it is print a message and exit the script.
Also see: Keyboard definitions, Programming definitions