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delimiter Computing.|dɪˈlɪmɪtə(r)|
[f. delimit v. + -er1.]
A character, etc., used to indicate the beginning or end of a group of characters or a field.
1960Communications Assoc. Computing Machinery III. 217/1 Break characters may serve merely as separators (e.g., commas to indicate parallel structure), as signs denoting a treatment to be performed on the separated blocks.., or as delimiters (paired parentheses) to impose tree structure on otherwise linear text. 1967G. H. Mealy in S. Rosen Programming Syst. & Lang. 558 The translation phase has two main functions. The first is to scan source statements, breaking them up into symbols, delimiters, literals, etc. 1979J. E. Rowley Mechanised In-House Information Syst. ii. 191 The variable length records are parsed and analysed for appropriate delimiters of textual fields, and then the data elements are extracted. 1983Austral. Personal Computer Sept. 30, 20H—ASCII space used as a delimiter. |