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Delimited Files. In computer programming, a delimited text file is a file in which the individual data values contain embedded delimiters, such as quotation marks, commas, and tabs. A delimiter is a character that separates words or phrases in a text string that defines the beginning or end of a contiguous string of character data.
A stylistic depiction of a fragment from a CSV-formatted text file. The commas (shown in red) are used as field delimiters. 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. Delimiters represent one of various means to specify boundaries in a data stream.