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What is the difference between underline and underscore ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between underline and underscore ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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1 Dec 2022
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I think that underline is a line that goes continuously below the words. Like the entire word or sentence has one continuous line under it. Underscore is one single short line, almost like a hyphen only lower where an underline would be. It either goes under one letter character or it goes in a space where there isn't a letter tho show there is a space there.
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I think that underline is a line that goes continuously below the words. Like the entire word or sentence has one continuous line under it. Underscore is one single short line, almost like a hyphen only lower where an underline would be. It either goes under one letter character or it goes in a space where there isn't a letter tho show there is a space there.
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When talking about a computer keyboard or computer coding, underscore looks like this: word_word / Underscore (_)
Underline on a keyboard goes under letters. An underscore when typing email addresses, cannot go under letters.
But as a verb in a sentence, the two words are very similar. I hope that helps.

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