Element: channel.delimiter
Element: channel.delimiterstring
The character to be used as the delimiter(s) between data items when reading from or writing to channel.
For input channels, the value of channel.delimiter may be a one or two character string, containing a delimiting character and optionally a space to indicate that white space is also permitted. When reading from a channel with no channel.delimiter set, the delimiter used is ', ', i.e. a comma and/or white space.
For output channels, the value of channel.delimiter may be a string of any length which is then used to separate output fields. When writing to a channel with no channel.delimiter set, the delimiter used is a space.
This delimiter can be overridden by use of the -del switch on an individual read or write command.
On input the following will treat | and/or white space as delimiters.
chan.delimiter = '| '
On input the following will treat only | as a delimiter and will regard white space as part of the data.
chan.delimiter = '|'