lineselectors
nounUK /ˈlaɪn sɪˌlɛktəz/
US /ˈlaɪn sɪˌlɛktərz/
Line selectors are tools that pick out certain lines from a group of lines.
The programmer used line selectors to grab only the important rows from the big text file.
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2. In CSS, line selectors are patterns that choose which lines of text get styled.
The designer used line selectors to make every other line of the poem a different color.
3. In electronics, line selectors are switches that choose which wire or signal path is active.
The technician flipped the line selectors to send power to the backup circuit.
4. In data processing, line selectors are rules that keep or drop rows based on their content.
The script's line selectors removed all the empty lines before saving the report.