A delimiter delineates parts of a statement, command, or data.
System delimiters include the four special metacharacters reserved for use by the Pick Data Model:
Attribute marks
Value marks
Subvalue marks
Segment marks
AQL and FlashBASIC both use single quotation marks (’), double quotation marks ("), and backslashes (\) as string delimiters, marking the beginning and ending point of a literal string.
Data itself can be delimited by any nonreserved delimiters mentioned above, such as an * (asterisk) or a - (minus sign).
NOTE |
The use of null item-IDs should be avoided. The use of null item-IDs can cause system processors that are dependent on spaces as delimiters to not recognize a null item-ID surrounded by a space, since it would appear to be just two spaces and considered a delimiter. |
See Also
.char Command, Attribute Mark, Segment Mark, Subvalue Mark, System Delimiters, Value Mark