Friday, July 20, 2007

FILEMAKER: Delimiter

DELIMITER

CATEGORY: Working With Records
CLASS: Import / Exports
VERSION: Not A FileMaker Specific Term

A character (most often a Tab, hyphen or bar character) that logically separates a text string, so that each section can be viewed as an independent piece of data. This is used in the database world to place strings of text in the appropriate database fields during an import operation.