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Colon (punctuation)
A colon is a punctuation mark, like this: ":".
In computer programming, the colon corresponds to Unicode and ASCII character 58, or 0x003A.
Colons are commonly used to introduce lists, or to connect a broad idea with a specific example: two related sentences can be separated by colons instead of periods.
In computer programming, the colon corresponds to Unicode and ASCII character 58, or 0x003A.
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