delimiter
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19 sectionsContents
- Examples
- Tabular data
- Bracket delimiters
- Solutions
- Obfuscation
- Control characters
- Escape sequence
- Higher level encoding
- Dual quoting delimiters
- Padding quoting delimiters
- Configurable alternative quoting delimiters
- Content boundary
- Whitespace or indentation
- Regular expression syntax
- Here document
- ASCII armor
- See also
- References
- External links
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In computing, a delimiter is a character or a sequence of characters for specifying the boundary between separate, independent regions in data such as a text file or data stream. For context, data boundaries can be indicated via other means. For example, declarative notation indicates the length of a field at the start of the field instead of relying on delimiters.
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