Is there a name for this symbol: |

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The symbol (or whatever classifies it): |

Isn't it the vertical bar? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_bar — Juan M, Dec 26 '16 at 07:45
Someone pasted this link http://shapecatcher.com on another recent question — Martin Smith, Dec 26 '16 at 10:55
The vertical bar gets much use in mathematics: || means Or: |x| means norm or absolute value of x; a|b means a divides b; and {x in S | ...} means the subset of S whose elements meet the conditions to the right of the vertical bar. — Airymouse, Dec 26 '16 at 15:08

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 26 '16 at 08:00

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Its name is pipe or bar. You can see the name of other special characters on the keyboard here.

edited Dec 26 '16 at 08:00

Wrzlprmft

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answered Dec 26 '16 at 07:51

Ehsan

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 26 '16 at 08:01

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It’s called pipe or vertical bar.

You can find this detail here.

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Wrzlprmft

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answered Dec 26 '16 at 07:59

Pradeep Sb

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 26 '16 at 15:32

It's generically called a bar.

Some characters take special meaning in certain contexts. For instance /./ is traditionally called a period, but the use of dot came into fashion for websites. Similarly, the term pipe came into fashion because the action it represents in terminal based programming, in which the output of one command is "piped" to the input of another. In different programming contexts it would not be a pipe, but, for instance, logical or. In any context it is a bar.

Is there a name for this symbol: |

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