When to use the terms “delimiter,” “terminator,” and “separator”
A delimiter denotes the limits of something, where it starts and where it ends. For example: “this is a string” has two delimiters, both of which happen to be the double-quote character. The delimiters indicate what’s part of the thing, and what is not. A separator distinguishes two things in a sequence: one, two 1\t2 … Read more