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<H3><A NAME="SEC61" HREF="ProgrammersManual_toc.html#TOC61">Initial Punctuation in Commands</A></H3>

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The server interprets command lines that begin with any of the following
characters specially:

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"        :        ;
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Before processing the command, the initial punctuation character is replaced by
the corresponding word below, followed by a space:

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say      emote    eval
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For example, the command line

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"Hello, there.
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is transformed into

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say Hello, there.
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before parsing.

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