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.