RecordSeparators

RecordSeparators is an option for Read, Find and related functions which specifies the list of strings to be taken as delimiters for records.

The default setting is RecordSeparators -> {"\n"}. With this setting, each complete line of input is considered as a record.

Strings used as record separators may contain several characters.

With the option setting NullRecords -> False, any number of record separators may appear between any two successive records.

RecordSeparators -> { } specifies that everything is to be included in a single record.

RecordSeparators -> , ... , , ... specifies different left and right separators for records. When there are nested left and right separators, records are taken to be delimited by the innermost balanced pairs of separators.

Example: with RecordSeparators -> {{"<"}, {">"}}, the records aaa and bbb are extracted from <x<aaa>yyy<<bbb>>>.

Text that does not appear between left and right separators is discarded.

See Section 2.12.8.

See also: WordSeparators.

New in Version 2.