<character> The character "|", ASCII code 124.
Common names: bar; or; or-bar; v-bar; pipe; verticalbar.
Rare: ITU-T: vertical line; gozinta; thru; pipesinta;
INTERCAL: spike.
"Pipe", "gozinta", "thru" and "pipesinta" refer to the use of
"|" in Unix shells to create a pipe.
Some keyboards show both a solid verticalbar (code 124) and a
broken verticalbar (code 166).
[Does anyone call either kind of verticalbar "pling"?
Other codes?]
(1998-09-20)
The vertical bar, |, is a glyph with various uses in mathematics, computing, and typography. It has many names, often related to particular meanings: Sheffer stroke (in logic), pipe, bar, or (literally the word "or"), vbar, and others.