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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>deliminator</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="deletia.html" title="deletia"/><link rel="next" href="delint.html" title="delint"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">deliminator</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="deletia.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="delint.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="deliminator"/><dt xmlns="" id="deliminator"><b>deliminator</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/de·lim'·in·ay·t@r/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [portmanteau, delimiter + eliminate] A string or pattern used to
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delimit text into fields, but which is itself eliminated from the resulting
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list of fields. This jargon seems to have originated among Perl hackers in
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connection with the Perl split() function; however, it has been sighted in
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live use among Java and even Visual Basic programmers.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="deletia.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="delint.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">deletia </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> delint</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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