Starting Out with Python (4th Edition)
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Author: Tony Gaddis
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Chapter 6, Problem 12MC
This is a single piece of data within a record.
a. field
b. variable
c. delimiter
d. subrecord
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Starting Out with Python (4th Edition)
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