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.

Description

An example of a delimiter is the commacharacter, which acts as a field delimiter in a sequence of comma-separated values.

Data stream boundaries

Delimiters represent one of various means to specify boundaries in a data stream.

Declarative notation

Declarative notation is an alternate method that uses a length field at the start of a data stream to specify the number of characters that the data stream contains.

See also

• Boundaries
• Character (computing)
• Comma
• Comma-separated values
• Data stream
• Declarative notation
• Plain text

External links

• Delimiter @ Wikipedia