vertical bar
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<character> The character "|", <a class='dictLink' href="?q=ASCII&database=*&strategy=exact&type=">ASCIIa> code 124.
Common names: bar; or; or-bar; v-bar; pipe; vertical bar.
Rare: <a class='dictLink' href="?q=ITU-T&database=*&strategy=exact&type=">ITU-Ta>: vertical line; gozinta; thru; pipesinta;
<a class='dictLink' href="?q=INTERCAL&database=*&strategy=exact&type=">INTERCALa>: spike.
"Pipe", "gozinta", "thru" and "pipesinta" refer to the use of
"|" in <a class='dictLink' href="?q=Unix&database=*&strategy=exact&type=">Unixa> shells to create a <a class='dictLink' href="?q=pipe&database=*&strategy=exact&type=">pipea>.
Some keyboards show both a solid vertical bar (code 124) and a
broken vertical bar (code 166).
[Does anyone call either kind of vertical bar "<a class='dictLink' href="?q=pling&database=*&strategy=exact&type=">plinga>"?
Other codes?]
(1998-09-20)
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