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delimiter

Definition/General, Releases: AP and R83

Separates elements in a statement, command or data.

Description

delineates parts of a statement, command or data.

'System Delimiters' include the four special metacharacters reserved for use by the Pick Data Model: attribute marks, value marks, subvalue marks and segment marks.

Access and Pick/BASIC both use (') (single-quotes), (') (double-quotes), and (\) (backslashes) as string delimiters, marking the beginning and ending point of a literal string.

Data itself may be delimited by any non-reserved delimiters mentioned above, such as (*) or (-).

See Also

Command Name Type Description
op.char Command Outputs character string without translation.
attribute.mark Definition Used to separate attibutes in items.
value.mark Definition Used to separate values within attributes.
sub-value.mark Definition Used to separate subvalues within values.
segment.mark Definition Used to separate items within frames.
system.delimiters Definition See 'delimiter'.
reserved.delimiters Definition

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