Editing Delimiter (section)

===Conventions===
Historically, computing platforms have used certain delimiters by convention.<ref>{{cite iso-ir|date=December 1, 1975|number=1|title=The set of control characters for ISO 646||sponsor=ISO/TC 97/SC 2 |sponsor-link=ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2#History}}</ref><ref>{{cite iso-ir|date=December 1, 1975|number=6|title=ASCII graphic character set|sponsor=[[American National Standards Institute]]}}</ref> The following tables depict a few examples for comparison.

'''Programming languages'''
(''See also'', [[Comparison of programming languages (syntax)]]).
{| class="wikitable"
!   !! String Literal !! End of Statement
|-
! Pascal
| singlequote || semicolon
|-
! Python
| doublequote, singlequote || [[end of line]] (EOL)
|-
|}

'''Field and Record delimiters''' (''See also'', [[ASCII]], [[Control character]]).

{| class="wikitable"
!   !! End of Field !! End of Record !! End of File
|-
! [[Unix-like]] systems including [[macOS]], [[AmigaOS]]
| [[Tab key|Tab]] || [[Line feed|LF]] || none
|-
! [[Windows]], [[MS-DOS]], [[OS/2]], [[CP/M]]
| [[Tab key|Tab]] || [[CRLF]] || none (except in CP/M), [[Control-Z]]<ref name="id_1268444696385_5">{{cite book | last = Lewine | first = Donald | title = Posix Programmer's Guide | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford Oxfordshire | year = 1991 | isbn = 978-0-937175-73-6 | url = https://archive.org/details/posixprogrammers00lewi }} Describes use of control-z. p. 156,</ref>
|-
! [[Classic Mac OS]], [[Apple DOS]], [[ProDOS]], [[GS/OS]]
| [[Tab key|Tab]] || [[Carriage return|CR]] || none
|-
! ASCII/Unicode
| [[C0 and C1 control codes#Field_separators|UNIT SEPARATOR]]<br>Position 31 (U+001F) || RECORD SEPARATOR<br>Position 30 (U+001E) || FILE SEPARATOR<br>Position 28 (U+001C)
|}