Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A character or sequence of characters marking the beginning or end of a unit of data.
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- noun That which
delimits , thatseparates .
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Examples
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Of course, a space is not the only word delimiter, and to check for all those would make the code slower.
The Code Project Latest Articles Scot Brennecke 2010
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226118: IPTC metadata tag delimiter is no longer stored (since 0.10).
Tweakers.net Mixed RSS Feed Japke Rosink 2010
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226118: IPTC metadata tag delimiter is no longer stored (since 0.10).
Planet KDE 2010
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226118: IPTC metadata tag delimiter is no longer stored (since 0.10).
Tweakers.net Mixed RSS Feed Japke Rosink 2010
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Hm, I had the problem without using the 'delimiter' statement.
phpBB.com 2010
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Hm, I had the problem without using the 'delimiter' statement.
phpBB.com brudertorgen 2010
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I feel like there's no statute of limitations, but that you don't need to have any super special delimiter, just not bury Final Crisis spoilers in an article about Secret Invasion, for example, without a warning.
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I quoted the bit about the delimiter-separated values file format being being better than CSV to a co-worker once and it turned out he'd contributed the section when ESR had it up on his website for comments/additions/corrections.
Insightful Book: The Art of UNIX Programming Jonathan Aquino 2008
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Unix files have the newline character as the line delimiter not carriage return.
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And if you dropped the delimiter “American” from the question above, the winner would undoubtedly be Stephen Hawking.
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