What is the name of this character |

Question

I am writing a documentation on a PHP framework. I make a lot use of this | character. It is some kind of separator, but does anyone know the exact name of it.

Answer 1

"Vertical Bar" or "pipe" wikipedia page

Answer 2

Vertical bar or Pipe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_bar

Answer 3

I always called it the "pipe character" from UNIX.

Wikipedia thinks it's just a "vertical bar"

Answer 4

I've always called it a pipe... HTML encoding calls it a "Vertical Bar" - HTML CODE: |

Answer 5

http://catb.org/jargon/html/A/ASCII.html

Common: bar; or; or-bar; v-bar; pipe; vertical bar. Rare: ; gozinta; thru; pipesinta (last three from UNIX); [spike].

Answer 6

"Or Or Vertical Bar"?? See here: http://www.grassrootsdesign.com/intro/char.php

But "bar" or "pipe" is what I usually referred to. :)

Answer 7

Not sure, but I have heard:-

1) It has been used to kill multicoloured people in certain rooms.
2) There's a well known Italian fond of using these for travel.
3) It rhymes with the term to describe when a fruit is just right to eat.

Sorry i can't be of more use.