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deliminator
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/delim'inayt@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.