A character designated to surround a data value to separate it and therefore make it a distinct single value For example, double quotes are often used as a delimiter for character data values when dealing with import or export of data to delimited text formats
A special character that separates items in a set of data or that groups or separates words or values in a line of input Synonymous with punctuation symbol, separator
A delimiter marks the beginning or end of a tag or a data field In HTML the opening delimiter of an element or tag is the less than symbol, <, and the closing delimiter is greater than symbol, >
Special characters that separate different items in a command line; for example, a colon separates the drive specification from the filename The CCP recognizes the following characters as delimiters: : = ; < > - , blank, and carriage return Several CP/M commands also treat the following as delimiter characters: , [ ] ( ) $ It is advisable to avoid the use of delimiter characters and lower-case characters in CP/M filenames
A character (or sequence of contiguous characters) that identifies the end of a string of characters, and separates that string of characters from the following string of characters A delimiter is not part of the string of characters that it delimits
A special character used in conjunction with a subfield code to introduce each subfield in a variable field where each element, or unit of data, is not necessarily limited to a prescribed size, content, and position in the record Character may vary in design but typically is a ‡ or $
A text character that marks the beginning and/or end of a unit of data or separates different data components For example, periods are used as delimiters in domain names, hyphens and parentheses are used in phone numbers and social security numbers, and blank spaces and commas are used in written text
(1) (n ) A value that separates and organizes items of data (2) (n ) A character that logically separates words or arguments on a command line Two frequently used delimiters in the UNIX® system are the space and the tab