Look up: Delimiter

1. delimiter
   (character) A character or string used to separate, or mark the start and end of, items of data in, e.g., a database, source code, or text file. See also: record. (2001-03-16)
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2. delimiter
   a character that limits a string of characters,and therefore cannot be a member of the string Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)
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3. delimiter
   A character that separates items in a set of data. Among the delimiters are field delimiters and record delimiters. In the following example from a data source record used when merging documents, the commas are field delimiters used to separate fields and the semicolon is a record delimiter used to separate records, e.g. 'George', '45 Lynfield Driv …
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4. Delimiter
   A `delimiter` is a sequence of one or more characters used to specify the boundary between separate, independent regions in plain text or other data streams. An example of a delimiter is the comma character, which acts as a field delimiter in a sequence of comma-separated values. Delimiters r...
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