2014-04-26 10:52:28 -04:00
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deliminator
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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/delim'inayt@r/ , n. [portmanteau, delimiter + eliminate] A string or
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pattern used to delimit text into fields, but which is itself eliminated
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from the resulting list of fields. This jargon seems to have originated
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among Perl hackers in connection with the Perl split() function; however, it
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has been sighted in live use among Java and even Visual Basic programmers.
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