A delimiter is a sequence of one or more characters used to specify the boundary between separate, independent regions in plain text or other data streams. An example of a delimiter is the comma character, which acts as a field delimiter in a sequence of comma-separated values.

Common delimiters:

• Tab
• Colon
• Semicolon
• Comma
• Space
• Pipe
• Hyphen

Delimiters in Excel

Excel uses delimiters in the Text to Columns function.  The options are tab (    ),  semicolon (;), comma (,), space ( ), or other which is an input field for a single custom character.

Intro paragraph from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delimiter