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Return a reference to the non&hyphen;modifiable previous delimiter (or _leader_) in the input string&period; The behavior is undefined if the underlying input has been modified or destroyed since this object was most recently reset (or created)&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;bdlb&lowbar;tokenizer&period;h&gt;`

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previousDelimiter() const;
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