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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.

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Vertical bar or Pipe:

The vertical bar ( | ) is a computer character and glyph with various uses in mathematics, computing, and typography. It has many names, often related to particular meanings: Sheffer stroke (in logic), verti-bar, vbar, stick, vertical line, vertical slash, bar, **obelisk, or pipe...

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"Vertical Bar" or "pipe" wikipedia page

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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].

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

Wikipedia thinks it's just a "vertical bar"

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