Fortinet 4.0 MR1 manual Angle brackets, Curly braces

Document conventions

Table 3: Command syntax notation

Convention	Description
Square brackets [ ]	A non-required word or series of words. For example:
	[verbose {1 2 3}]
	indicates that you may either omit or type both the verbose word and
	its accompanying option, such as:
	verbose 3
Angle brackets < >	A word constrained by data type.
	To define acceptable input, the angled brackets contain a descriptive
	name followed by an underscore ( _ ) and suffix that indicates the
	valid data type. For example:
	<retries_int>
	indicates that you should enter a number of retries, such as 5.
	Data types include:
	• <xxx_name>: A name referring to another part of the
	configuration, such as policy_A.
	• <xxx_index>: An index number referring to another part of the
	configuration, such as 0 for the first static route.
	• <xxx_pattern>: A regular expression or word with wild cards
	that matches possible variations, such as *@example.com to
	match all email addresses ending in @example.com.
	• <xxx_fqdn>: A fully qualified domain name (FQDN), such as
	mail.example.com.
	• <xxx_email>: An email address, such as
	admin@mail.example.com.
	• <xxx_url>: A uniform resource locator (URL) and its associated
	protocol and host name prefix, which together form a uniform
	resource identifier (URI), such as
	http://www.fortinet./com/.
	• <xxx_ipv4>: An IPv4 address, such as 192.168.1.99.
	• <xxx_v4mask>: A dotted decimal IPv4 netmask, such as
	255.255.255.0.
	• <xxx_ipv4mask>: A dotted decimal IPv4 address and netmask
	separated by a space, such as
	192.168.1.99 255.255.255.0.
	• <xxx_ipv4/mask>: A dotted decimal IPv4 address and
	CIDR-notation netmask separated by a slash, such as such as
	192.168.1.99/24.
	• <xxx_ipv6>: A colon( : )-delimited hexadecimal IPv6 address,
	such as 3f2e:6a8b:78a3:0d82:1725:6a2f:0370:6234.
	• <xxx_v6mask>: An IPv6 netmask, such as /96.
	• <xxx_ipv6mask>: An IPv6 address and netmask separated by a
	space.
	• <xxx_str>: A string of characters that is not another data type,
	such as P@ssw0rd. Strings containing spaces or special
	characters must be surrounded in quotes or use escape
	sequences.
	• <xxx_int>: An integer number that is not another data type,
	such as 15 for the number of minutes.
Curly braces { }	A word or series of words that is constrained to a set of options
	delimited by either vertical bars or spaces.
	You must enter at least one of the options, unless the set of options is
	surrounded by square brackets [ ].

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