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HyperTalk Reference

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itemDelimiter

The itemDelimiter property sets or retrieves what character HyperCard uses to separate items in a list.

The default delimiter is comma. HyperCard resets itemDelimiter to the default delimiter at idle.

This property has no effect on comma-delimited structures such as dateItems, location (loc), or rectangles (rect).

Placeholders

char

An expression that yields a single character.

For example: