Delimiter

Delimiter is character that is employed to divide or enclose distinct items of list or sequence and is often employed in encoded data. Examples of delimiters are commas, semicolon, colon, parentheses, quotation marks and braces are some examples of used delimiters. For example, in the case of the CSV file, field separated by a comma: in many programming languages statements separated by semicolon.

Delimiters are essential for how data or code is segmented and comprehended, appropriate use of delimiters is therefore highly germane. Failure to use delimiters in a consistent or correct manner will result in problems of parsing as well as corruption of data. In this regard, then, delimiters can be useful grammatical components to preserve order in the data and code by Application development.

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