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National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeInformation and Communication Technology: Dictionary

terminator

A terminator is a specified value, not normally expected in the data, that is used to mark the end of a list of data items. The program can process the data in order until it reaches the terminator. The number of data items can vary and does not have to be known in advance.

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listvalueend of file (EOF) characterprogrammingrogue value
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