Delimiter
A delimiter is one or more characters that separates text strings. Common delimiters are: commas (,), semicolon (;), quotes ( ", ' ), braces ({}), pipes (|), or slashes ( / \ ). When a program stores a lot of data it may use a delimiter to separate each of the data values. For example, "john|doe" has a pipe as its delimiter, a program or script could easily distinguish between a first and last name at the delimiter.
In the Windows command line for command delimiters are specified using the delims= option. For example, delims=, indicates the delimiter is a comma.