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WWWE Logo delimiter

A delimiter is the character that marks the beginning or end of a unit of data. Datasets are commonly space- or comma-delimited.

Detail:

A simple example of delimiting:

comma delimited
"one","two","three","four ", ...
space delimited 
one   two   three four  five  ...
tab delimited 
one	two	three	four	five

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