Can someone please help me with this one. On the computer keyboard, i've never really had to use that symbol in the top left hand side beneath the escape button, there are three symbols and one of them is in the top right which is like an I , how do i use this symbol. Much appreciated, it's the symbol used to seperate words Thanks James
Which one are you talking about, please pick from the list I've made: ` ~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) - _ = + | \ " ' ; : . > < , / ?
Yeah, you shouldn't have to use it much but it can divide things so that people know there is a division in text (It's like a "STOP!" sign) Keyboard Key: \ Second Function Key: |
It's called the "pipe," by the way. Good for programming: this || that (this or that) Old school menu item separation: Home | About | Contact Listing directory contents in DOS: dir | more Not much use for it these days. No wonder it's been relegated to the third symbol on a key requiring who knows what kind of finger gymnastics. Sorry for rambling... Good memories associated with that symbol.
On my keyboard you get : NORMAL KEY: ` SHIFT + KEY: ¬ CTRL + ALT + KEY: ¦ Does that answer the question?
On my keyboard i use shift and \ to make |. I like how ywp explained it, it really brings back memories.lol.
I'm using pipe today, in regular expressions. You just can't do programming or Apache mod_rewrite without it! You also use it when editing Wikipedia articles... it separates the link text from the link itself, when different: [[thelink |The Text]] Which key you hit depends on your keyboard. Here in the Netherlands we usually have a US keyboard, so the symbol for us is the key above ENTER/RETURN, with also the \ symbol on it, so SHIFT+ \ but on other keyboards it's different.