In general formats, the ellipsis (...) allows repetition of a part of the format. To determine which part of the format can be repeated: 1) Find the ellipsis. 2) Scanning to the left, find the first right delimiter, either ] or }. 3) Continuing to the left, find its logically matching left delimiter, either [ or {. The ellipsis applies to the part of the format between the matched pair of delimiters.