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character
"~"
ASCII
character 126.
Common names are:
ITU-T
: tilde; squiggle;
twiddle
; not.
Rare: approx; wiggle;
swung dash
; enyay;
INTERCAL
: sqiggle
(sic).
Used as
C
's prefix
bitwise negation
operator
; and in
Unix
csh
,
GNU Emacs
, and elsewhere, to stand for the
current user's
home directory
, or, when prefixed to a
loginname
, for the given user's home directory.
The "swung dash" or "approximation" sign is not quite the same
as
tilde
in typeset material but the ASCII tilde serves for
both (compare
angle brackets
).
[Has anyone else heard this called "tidal" (as in wave)?]
(1996-10-18)