delimiter
| Command | delimiter Definition/General Applicable release versions: AP, R83 |
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| Category | General (155) |
| Description | delineates parts of a statement, command or data. "System Delimiters" include the four special metacharacters reserved for use by the Pick Data Model: attribute marks, value marks, subvalue marks and segment marks. Access and Pick/BASIC both use (') (single-quotes), (") (double-quotes), and () (backslashes) as string delimiters, marking the beginning and ending point of a literal string. Data itself may be delimited by any non-reserved delimiters mentioned above, such as (*) or (-). |
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op.char attribute.mark value.mark sub-value.mark segment.mark system.delimiters reserved.delimiters |
delimiter
| Command | delimiter Definition/General Applicable release versions: AP, R83 |
|---|---|
| Category | General (155) |
| Description | delineates parts of a statement, command or data. "System Delimiters" include the four special metacharacters reserved for use by the Pick Data Model: attribute marks, value marks, subvalue marks and segment marks. Access and Pick/BASIC both use (') (single-quotes), (") (double-quotes), and () (backslashes) as string delimiters, marking the beginning and ending point of a literal string. Data itself may be delimited by any non-reserved delimiters mentioned above, such as (*) or (-). |
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op.char attribute.mark value.mark sub-value.mark segment.mark system.delimiters reserved.delimiters |
