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Many early video terminals and dot-matrix printers rendered the vertical bar character as the allograph broken bar ¦. This may have been to distinguish the character from the lower-case 'L' and the upper-case ' I ' on these limited-resolution devices, and to make a vertical line of them look more like a horizontal line of dashes.
To add a new cell in a row, start each new cell with a new line and a single vertical bar (|), or several cells can be placed consecutively on the same line, separated by double vertical bars (||). |} end To end the table, use a single vertical bar (|) and a left facing curly brace (}) alone on a new line.
[2]: 113 [5] The vertical bar (also referred to as pipe) and space are also sometimes used. [2]: 113 Column headers are sometimes included as the first line, and each subsequent line is a row of data. The lines are separated by newlines. For example, the following fields in each record are delimited by commas, and each record by newlines:
The bars can be plotted vertically or horizontally. A vertical bar chart is sometimes called a column chart and has been identified as the prototype of charts. [1] A bar graph shows comparisons among discrete categories. One axis of the chart shows the specific categories being compared, and the other axis represents a measured value.
Vertical bar | and vertical bars ‖ are typographical symbols. They may also refer to: Chōonpu, a character in vertical Japanese writing, ー; Dental click, ǀ; Lateral click, a character in African languages, ǁ; Parallel (geometry), ∥; Parallel (operator), also ∥; Logical disjunction, || in several programming languages
This template creates a vertical bar chart for a set of data of your choosing, for example, charting population demographics of a location. Up to twenty graphical bars can be used along with specified colors. The graph's width is set by default, but can be changed, as well as the large and small scales.
Each bar can also have a comment, such as "comment7=xx" to show "(xx)" after the number in bar 7. For a 2-column bar chart, the 2nd column items have prefix "col2_" such as scale maximum, col2_data_max=110, and col2_data3=67 with col2_comment3=zz. See below: "Example with two data columns". Each bar chart can be formatted typically within 1/5 ...