C preprocessor macros work by simple textual search-and-replace at the token, rather than the character, level.

: A quantifier after a token ( such as a character ) or group specifies how often that preceding element is allowed to occur.

When developing the character, Parker recalled there being only one Jewish student in his entire hometown of Conifer, Colorado, and described her as being " the token Jewish person ".

As a token of appreciation, Hergé added the character " Chang Chong-Chen " ( Tchang in original French-language version ) to The Blue Lotus, a young Chinese orphan boy who meets and befriends Tintin.

Suzuki contributed to the Nihonjinron-philosophy by taking Zen as the distinctive token of Asian spirituality, showing its unique character in the Japanese culture

The first stage is the token generation, or lexical analysis, by which the input character stream is split into meaningful symbols defined by a grammar of regular expressions.

The rules specify how the character sequences are to be chunked into tokens ( the lexical grammar ), the permissible sequences of these tokens and some of the meaning to be attributed to these permissible token sequences ( additional meaning is assigned by the semantics of the language ).

A token character can also be used by writers to pay lip service to rules or standards, when they otherwise have no intention of doing so, such as by obeying anti-racism policies by including a token ethnic minority character who — despite being present often — has no function in the overall plot, does little or nothing, and is often a stereotyped character.

* What the user may consider a valid input may contain token characters or character strings that have been reserved by the developer to have special meaning ( perhaps the "&" in " Shannon & Jason ", or quotation marks as in " Bub ' Slugger ' McCracken ").

These tokens also have a small character printed on the bottom of the token.

Her brother Tyrelda and the rest of the elf troops are black as well and make constant reference to Alex Albrecht's character being the token white guy.

Shoehorning can also refer to an unnatural-seeming inclusion of something for reasons which may range anywhere from demographic-pleasing or political correctness ( for example, a token character in a television show or film ).

* In the DVD board game, Atmosfear, Gévaudan is the name of the blue werewolf " Harbinger " character that can be used as a player token.

Other, optional gameplay modes include a training mode for learning each character ’ s moves ; an arcade mode, where the player fights through a series of chosen opponents ; a multiplayer Skirmish mode ; and a token minigame, which plays like a modified version of the card game War.

For example the Emperor instead nominates a different character to receive the king token ( and start the next character selection draft ).

* it allows for identification of the character: token ;

After the line number, the string "< tt > ERROR-</ tt >" is inserted and the first character of the token following the erroneous token is displayed with the foreground and background colours swapped.

If an evil which is certain and extensive and immediate may rarely be compensated for by a problematic, speculative, future good, by the same token not every present, certain, and immediate good ( or lesser evil ) that may have to be done will be outweighed by a problematic, speculative, and future evil.

" And if he says something that contradicts what is found in the standard works ( I think that is why we call them " standard "— it is the standard measure of all that men teach ), you may know by that same token that it is false ; regardless of the position of the man who says it.

By the same token, Mu is thought of as " Tree " rather than " Wood ".

A creed is sometimes referred to as a symbol signifying a " token " by which persons of like beliefs might recognize each other.

He is said to speak in thunder, and thunder is seen as a token of His anger.

The board starts off with a portion of the map left blank: when players expand into the blank region, terrain hexes are drawn at random from a supply and placed in the empty space, and, if a land hex is " discovered ", a number token may be assigned.

Input position n is the position after accepting the the nth token.

HTTPS is a URI scheme which has identical syntax to the standard HTTP scheme, aside from its scheme token.

By the same token, the hero of the high fantasy adventure is capable of completing it and settling down to ordinary life again.

Beneath the LLC sublayer is the Media Access Control ( MAC ) sublayer, which is dependent on the particular medium being used ( Ethernet, token ring, FDDI, 802. 11, etc.

It is almost never implemented on Ethernet, although it is used on FDDI and on token ring, IEEE 802. 11, and other IEEE 802 networks.

No maximum charge is applied at their destination as the inspector will apply an ' exit token ' to their card.

The FAM is now effectively a token force, and the defence budget has been cut down to 1. 5 of Mozambique's Gross National Product.

In casual play, the right to deal a hand typically rotates among the players and is marked by a token called a dealer button ( or buck ).

However, when supervenience physicalism and token physicalism are combined, minimal physicalism is met, as will be detailed in the following sections.

The type / token distinction is easily illustrated by way of example.

By this token, the entirety of creation is good in its being and is not innately evil either in whole or in part.

They have proven easy to spoof in some famous incidents testing commercially available systems, for example, the gummie fingerprint spoof demonstration, and, because these characteristics are unalterable, they cannot be changed if compromised ; this is a highly important consideration in access control as a compromised access token is necessarily insecure.

He was offered a token payment but would not accept, wanting the credit for his work.

Later on, a distinction was made between the stigmergic phenomenon, which is specific to the guidance of additional work, and the more general, non-work specific incitation, for which the term sematectonic communication was coined by E. O. Wilson, from the Greek words σῆμα sema " sign, token ", and τέκτων tecton " craftsman, builder ": " There is a need for a more general, somewhat less clumsy expression to denote the evocation of any form of behavior or physiological change by the evidences of work performed by other animals, including the special case of the guidance of additional work.

It was a contention-based system intended to work over a range, that included a pseudo-slotted feature intended to reduce collisions, which worked by passing a virtual token of permission from host to host ; successful packet transmissions updated each host's knowledge of which host had the token at that time.

In 1985, IBM went forward with the token ring network scheme and a NetBIOS emulator was produced to allow NetBIOS-aware applications from the PC-Network era to work over this new design.

By the same token, Stanton and Anthony were willing to work with anyone, despite their view on other matters, as long as they wholeheartedly championed woman rights and suffrage.

The abstentionists would immediately resign their post in the Council of Government immediately upon election as a protest against the token representation of the electorate on the Council ; the anti-abstentionists favoured co-operation with the colonial authorities in order to work for a better constitution.

When the NYC subway still used tokens, token suckers would steal tokens by jamming turnstile coin slots, waiting for unsuspecting passengers to deposit tokens ( only to discover that the turnstile did not work ), then returning to suck out the token.

Bomber versions of both types were proposed, and work continued on them at the insistence of Adolf Hitler long after the point when anything other than token use could have been made of them.

Their salary from the Crown was a token ; their recompense was in prestige, primarily because of the fuero militar (" military privilege "), that exempted them from certain taxes and obligatory community work assignments ( compare the feudal corvée ), and more significantly, exempted them from criminal or civil prosecution.

Depending on the context, this element might be called an artefact, expression, image, impression, lyric, mark, performance, picture, sentence, sign, string, symbol, text, thought, token, utterance, word, work, and so on.

According to Matthew Dillon, they are most akin to SPLs, except a token works across multiple CPUs while SPLs only work within a single CPU's domain.

A literary token of respect for the work and courage of Gongadze is to be found in the novel for young adults, " Fair Game: The Steps of Odessa " ( Spire Publishing, 2008, ISBN 1-897312-72-5 ) by James Watson.

Dumézil's contribution and the location of the find gave researchers grounds to pursue their work of interpretation in the same direction, i. e. of its significance as a token of legal obligation.

At the first reception, in 1858, of Motley at the royal palace at the Hague, the king presented him with a copy of Groen's Archives as a token of appreciation and admiration of the work done by the worthy vindicator of William I, prince of Orange.

More importantly, the Flame was a token of thanks for the restoration work on the Statue of Liberty accomplished three years earlier by two French businesses that did artisanal work on the project: namely, Métalliers Champenois, which did the bronze work, and the Gohard Studios, which applied the gold leaf.

The dedication is to Edward Winston Watson, and was added to the score on 8 November 1980 as a token of esteem and friendship, and in recognition of his provision of support during the composition of the work, which took place at the Villa Clos Collonges in Territet, Montreux, in Switzerland in 1973.

A public goods games variant suggested as an improvement for researching the free rider problem is one in which token income can vary among players ; the standard game ( with a fixed initial endowments ) allows no work effort variation and cannot capture the marginal substitutions among three factors: private goods, public goods, and leisure.