Delimiter

Sometimes it is useful to specify an alternate regex delimiter in order to avoid " delimiter collision ".

For example, dates and times need to be expressed in ISO 8601 format, so you use the YYYY-MM-DD pattern for a date and YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss for date and time (the T is used as the delimiter between data and time).

Alphabetic or character constants are stored as integers and written using the dollar sign as a delimiter ($ABCDEF$) with double dollar-signs used to enter a true dollar sign ($$$.56$ is 56 cents).

Also, each element can have an associated delimiter map (and short reference map), which determines which characters are treated as delimiters in context.

Code Syntax RTF is programmed by using groups, a backslash, a control word and a delimiter.

In some cases, such as sed and Perl, alternative delimiters can be used to avoid collision with contents, and to avoid having to escape occurrences of the delimiter character in the contents.

Many modern programming languages specify the doublequote character ( " ) as a delimiter for a string literal.

Operators White space White space is used to separate elements of a definition; for space to be recognized as a delimiter it must be explicitly included.

Piece function: This breaks variables into segmented pieces guided by a user specified separator string (sometimes called a "delimiter").

Removed were the SGML declaration (XML has a fixed delimiter set and adopts Unicode as the document character set ).

SHORTREF Tags can be replaced with delimiter strings, for a terser markup, via the SHORTREF feature.

Some programming languages also provide other ways to represent special characters in literals, without requiring an escape character (see e.g. delimiter collision ).

The frame begins after the start frame delimiter with a frame header featuring source and destination MAC addresses.

The HTML and XML encoding for the ampersand character is the entity " amp; ". citation This can create a problem known as delimiter collision when converting text into one of these markup languages.

The interpreter reads a line of input from the user input device, which is then parsed for a word using spaces as a delimiter ; some systems recognise additional whitespace characters.

This latter prescription, which goes by many names, including "sig dashes", "signature cut line", "sig-marker", "sig separator" and "signature delimiter", allows software to automatically mark or remove the sig block as the receiver desires.

This short delimiter makes script files less portable, since support for them can be disabled in the local PHP configuration and it is therefore discouraged.

XML does not use the grammar (DTD) to change delimiter maps or to inform the parse modes, and does not allow tag omission; consequently, XML validation of elements is not active in the sense that SGML validation is active.