delimiter
noun
de·lim·it·er
di-ˈli-mə-tər 
dē-
: a character that marks the beginning or end of a unit of data
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Make sure to use explicit delimiters in prompts to distinguish various elements.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
This image shows a URL with the delimiters scheme, user info, hostname, port, path, query, and fragment.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 18 May 2023
URLs use delimiters between each syntactic element.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 18 May 2023
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Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
This image shows a URL with the delimiters scheme, user info, hostname, port, path, query, and fragment.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 18 May 2023
URLs use delimiters between each syntactic element.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 18 May 2023
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“Delimiter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/delimiter. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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