Show symbols in text

If you want to show a symbol in your text, write out the symbol first, and then refer to the symbol in parentheses with nonbreaking spaces. The HTML character entity for a nonbreaking space is  .

Correct

Begin the line with a forward slash ( / ).

Enter your search after the pipe ( | ).

Incorrect

Begin the line with a forward slash, /.

Enter your search after the |.

What to call symbols

Use the following terms when writing about symbols in Splunk documentation:

Symbol	What to call it
`	Backtick
~	Tilde
!	Exclamation point
@	At symbol
#	Pound sign
$	Dollar sign
%	Percent sign
^	Caret
&	Ampersand
*	Asterisk, wildcard
(	Left parenthesis
)	Right parenthesis
-	Dash, hyphen, minus sign
_	Underscore
=	Equal sign
+	Plus sign
[	Left bracket
]	Right bracket
{	Left brace, left curly brace
}	Right brace, right curly brace
\	Backslash
|	Pipe, vertical bar
;	Semicolon
:	Colon
'	Single quotation mark
"	Double quotation mark
,	Comma
<	Less than, left-pointing angle bracket
.	Period
>	Greater than, right-pointing angle bracket
/	Forward slash
?	Question mark