DELIMITER

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.

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delimiter

Noun

  1. That which delimits, that separates.
    This comma delimited file has commas as the delimiter, separating each field of the file.


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