Special Characters

Special symbols and characters

The MATLAB® language contains several special characters and symbols that you can use to perform a variety of tasks. See MATLAB Operators and Special Characters for a comprehensive summary.

MATLAB Language Syntax

@Create anonymous functions and function handles, call superclass methods
.Decimal point, element-wise operations, indexing
...Line continuation
=Variable creation and indexed assignment
,Command separator
:Vector creation, array subscripting, and for-loop iteration
;Command and array separator
!Operating system command
?Obtain matlab.metadata.Class object
%Code comments, conversion specifier
%{ %}Block comments
( )Command grouping, indexing
{ }Cell array creation, indexing
[ ]Array creation and concatenation, element deletion, argument assignment

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