What is a delimiter?

Question

I saw it in the strings

Answer 1

A delimiter is a sequence of one or more characters used to specify the boundary between separate, independent regions in plain text or other data streams. An example of a delimiter is the comma character, which acts as a field delimiter in a sequence of comma-separated values.

Delimited strings are strings that contain different fields separated by a single delimiter character. For example an ordinary sentence is a series of words separated by a single space. A text record in a file may contain a series of fields separated by a comma. A file path is a series of directory names separated by a slash "/".

Here are a few examples of delimited strings.

"The quick brown fox jumped over the moon."

"John,Smith,Programmer,Mintoris"

"MyDir/invoices/daily"

There is a set of Basic functions designed to deal with delimited strings. For the purposes of this manual, individual fields within a delimited string are referred to as Items.

The following functions count, locate, insert, extract and remove individual items within delimited strings.

ItemAdd$()

ItemCount()

ItemExtract$()

ItemInsert$()

ItemJoin$()

ItemLocate()

ItemRemove$()

ItemReplace$()

ItemSplit$()