Delimiter Delimiter

Delimiter - Definition and Overview

The term delimiter refers to a separating character. In the following text, semicolons are used as delimiters between the numbers:

  123;234;123;3454353;3453;

Delimiters are commonly used in computer files to separate data values. For example, the comma-separated values (CSV) file format uses a comma as the delimiter between fields, and a newline character as the delimiter between records.

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