what is filler
and what is use of filler

Answer Posted / himanshu mistry

Filler can be used to fill the gap between to variable of our interest. Filler is the part of record/data we don't use for any computational purpose.
self explanatory... to fill up the gap either with some spaces or strings or data.

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