--, a string of two hyphen-minus characters, may approximate or refer to:
- En dash (–)
- Em dash (—), as a typewriter approximation
- Sig dashes (--), the email and Usenet signature delimiter
- For Unix commands, used as a prefix for command options. By itself, it typically means the end of command options.
- The decrement operator in some programming languages
- Inline comments in some programming languages
See also
editLook up -- in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
- Double hyphen (one above the other)
- - (disambiguation)
- HTML comment tag,
<!--
and-->
- Horizontal rule, which is represented by
----
in MediaWiki markup