Specifies a pair of strings used to delimit a section of text to be ignored during the comparison of both files. The delimiters can be up to 256 characters per line, and must be unique. Any text between and including the delimiters is treated as if it did not exist. If you do not enclose the sentinel strings in quotation marks, they are converted to uppercase before the comparison of the files. Sentinel strings may contain any characters, but if you include spaces or tabs, they must be enclosed in quotation marks. Sentinel strings can appear anywhere in a file. If text delimited by a sentinel pair crosses record boundaries, the text after the delimited region appears in its own record in the output file; it is not appended to the contents of the record in which the begin delimiter was found.