*
 * Comment lines are either blank or start with a `#` character. Lines may also end with a comment.
 * All comments are ignored.
 *
 * Regular lines contain fields separated by semicolons.
 *
 * The first element on each line is a single hex code point (like 0041) or a hex code point range
 * (like 0030..0039).
 *
 * The second element on each line is a mapping type, like `valid` or `mapped`.
 *

may trigger the insertion of a <a href="#Semicolons">semicolon</a>.
While breaking the input into tokens,
the next token is the longest sequence of characters that form a
valid token.
</p>

<h3 id="Semicolons">Semicolons</h3>

<p>
The formal syntax uses semicolons <code>";"</code> as terminators in
a number of productions. Go programs may omit most of these semicolons
using the following two rules:
</p>

The value of the variable `PATH` is a long string that is made of directories separated by a colon `:` on Linux and macOS, and by a semicolon `;` on Windows.

For example, the `PATH` environment variable could look like this:

//// tab | Linux, macOS

```plaintext
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
```