# White Space

SCPI Basics

- Program Message Terminator
- Short or Long Forms
- White Space
- Combining Commands
- Adding Parameters to a Command
- String Arguments
- Numbers
- Infinity Representation
- Queries
- Endianness of Returned Binary Block Data
- NaN (Not A Number)
- Sequential and Overlapped Commands
- SCPI Tree

White space is defined to be one or more characters from the ASCII set of 0 through 32 decimal, excluding 10 (NL). White space is usually optional, and can be used to increase the readability of a program.