field separator


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field separator

[′fēld ‚sep·ə‚rād·ər]
(computer science)
A character that is used to mark the boundary between fields in a record.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

field separator

A character used to mark the separation of fields in a record. See CSV and tab delimited.
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