May 15, 2003

deliminator

/de·lim'·in·ay·t@r/ n.

[portmanteau, delimiter + eliminate] A string or pattern used to delimit text into fields, but which is itself eliminated from the resulting list of fields. This jargon seems to have originated among Perl hackers in connection with the Perl split() function; however, it has been sighted in live use among Java and even Visual Basic programmers.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:51 AM

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