what is delimiter?
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Could be anything. Depend on the context. Vaguely one could say it is a defined unit separating data without (necessarily) being part of the data itself.
I.e. in the string "what is", the quotes delimit the string, but are not a part of it. A data stream can have a defined byte-sequence/flag/etc delimiting records; i.e a comma delimited list:
record1,record2 ,record3
And so on...
One can separate it into two major groups being; 1. string literals, and 2. data.
In the broad sense it can include x^n definitions. A space can be a separator for words. Newline for records in a list, - and so on.
Important to notice and not mix is the term operator, sorted by precedence and associativity:
Also note that in C, semicolon is a statement terminator and not a separator. While i.e. pascal defines it as a statement separator.Code:---------------------------------------------- Operators Associativity ---------------------------------------------- () [] -> . left to right ! ~ ++ -- + - * (type) sizeof right to left * / % left to right + - left to right << >> left to right < <= > >= left to right == != left to right & left to right ^ left to right | left to right && left to right || left to right ?: right to left = += -= *= /= %= &= ^= |= <<= >>= right to left , left to right ----------------------------------------------
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