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segment.mark

Definition/General, Releases: AP and R83

Used to separate items within frames.

Description

refers to the specific metacharacter used within Pick items. The segment mark is not actually part of data. Rather, it is used as an 'item delimiter', and is automatically appended to the 'end' of an item when written to disk.

The 'segment mark' is a 'reserved' character. This means that it may be not used for any other purpose.

The following table shows the different representations for the 'segment mark':

Ascii value: '_'
Hexadecimal value: ff
Decimal value: 255

See Also

Command Name Type Description
attribute.mark Definition Used to separate attibutes in items.
sub-value.mark Definition Used to separate subvalues within values.
tcl.dump Verb: Access Dumps frame(s) to screen or printer.
meta.characters Definition The term used for the set of Pick reserved delimiters.
value.mark Definition Used to separate values within attributes.
start.buffer.mark Definition Used primarily to pad tape records.
delimiter Definition Separates elements in a statement, command or data.
system.delimiters Definition See 'delimiter'.

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