Definition of "delimiter" [delimiter]

• Computer Science A character or sequence of characters marking the beginning or end of a unit of data. (noun)

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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."
• "226118: IPTC metadata tag delimiter is no longer stored (since 0.10)."
• "Hm, I had the problem without using the 'delimiter' statement."