There are three kinds of brackets: angle brackets, curly braces, and square brackets.
Angle brackets ( < and > )
Use angle brackets as a placeholder for variables you want the user to enter.
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- Correct
- Type your user-specified domain in this format: https://<user-specified domain>.dru.care
- Incorrect
- Type your user-specified domain in this format: https://{user-specified domain}.dru.care
- Type your user-specified domain in this format: https://(user-specified domain).dru.care
- Type your user-specified domain in this format: https://[user-specified domain].dru.care
You can also use angle brackets to indicate navigation or a series of menu item clicks. See the following example:
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Select Save As > Saved search > Close.
Curly braces ( { and } )
Use curly braces only when they are part of a code sample or other string literal.
Square brackets ( [ and ] )
Use square brackets around a .conf file stanza name or within code.
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- Correct
- Edit the
[drucaretcp]stanza. - Specify a subsearch that starts with this search command:
tag=dns query [search tag=malware].
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- Incorrect
- Type your user-specified domain in this format: https://[user-specified domain].dru.care