Colon

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:

The symbol : (pronounced "colon") is used in Pascal in several ways.

• It is used to indicate the type of an identifier in a var or const declaration.

• It is used to indicate a case statement entry.

• It separate a function declaration with the function type.

• It is used to indicate a label.

• It is used to separate the optional field width specifier from the value for a Write or Writeln parameter.

The colon ASCII or the unicode value is 58.