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page_title: Syntax Overview - Configuration Language
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description: >-
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Terraform language syntax for both the native and JSON variants. Also learn
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formatting conventions that you can enforce with terraform fmt.
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# Syntax
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The majority of the Terraform language documentation focuses on the practical
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uses of the language and the specific constructs it uses. The pages in this
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section offer a more abstract view of the Terraform language.
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- [Configuration Syntax](/language/syntax/configuration) describes the native
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grammar of the Terraform language.
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- [JSON Configuration Syntax](/language/syntax/json) documents
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how to represent Terraform language constructs in the pure JSON variant of the
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Terraform language. Terraform's JSON syntax is unfriendly to humans, but can
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be very useful when generating infrastructure as code with other systems that
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don't have a readily available HCL library.
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- [Style Conventions](/language/syntax/style) documents some commonly
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accepted formatting guidelines for Terraform code. These conventions can be
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enforced automatically with [`terraform fmt`](/cli/commands/fmt).
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