specifier
Noun
Meaning
someone who draws up specifications giving details (as for obtaining a patent)
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A format specifier consists of a symbol followed by a letter that indicates the formatting that applies to the value.
A typical usage would be use as the revision specifier, but then to use to import only the last 1000 revisions rather than the entire revision history.
The DTD is referenced here as an external subset, via the SYSTEM specifier and a URI.
The type specifier int indicates that the value that is returned to the invoker (in this case the run-time environment) as a result of evaluating the main function, is an integer.
Just as we were hoping, the last format specifier read the very beginning of our payload.
Let's try it with the conversion specifier.