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Certain characters and character sequences affect stream processing. Use these carefully.

Glyph

Names

Usage
 &

Ampersand

 && is the AND operator in expressions
<  /> Angle brackets Start and end of JavaServer Page tag
 |

Pipe, vertical bar

|| is the OR operator in expressions
{ }

Curly braces

Start and end of a directive.
 !

Exclamation point

Not operator in expressions, also a separator character in handles and exported XML files.
 =

Equal sign

Used in the JSP tags and the Reference and Literal directives
 /

Backslash

UNIX paths.
 $

Dollar sign

Marks keywords.
  .

Period, dot, stop

Precedes property name in "dot syntax." See Property references in expressions.

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