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{{About|non hardware software drivers|hardware device drivers|Device driver}}{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2018}}A driver in software provides a programming interface to control and manage specific lower-level interfaces that are often linked to a specific type of hardware, or other low-level service. In the case of hardware, the specific subclass of drivers controlling physical or virtual hardware devices are known as device drivers.WEB, What is a driver?, 2 September 2018,weblink Microsoft,

Example

A client library for connecting to a database is often known as a driver, for example, the MySQL native driver for PHP.WEB, MySQL native driver for PHP - mysqlnd,weblink 2 September 2018, MySQL,

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