Show pipe ( | ) sign in the Inline Code inside Table

[doggy8088]

Here are my few trials below:

Table 1: There is a pipe ( | ) character inside Table Cell. It can't display properly.

Alias	Command	What to Type
git cleanup	`git branch --merged	grep -v '*'

Table 2: There is a pipe ( | ) character that escape with a HTML Entity ( | ). Within ` sign, all HTML Entities will output ASIS which is not what I want.

Alias	Command	What to Type
git cleanup	git branch --merged | grep -v '*' | xargs git branch -d	git config --global alias.cleanup "!git branch --merged | grep -v '*' | xargs git branch -d"

Table 3: When I strip the ` sign, it works, but not what I want. Using this, we also need to escape the * symbol to |.

Alias	Command	What to Type
git cleanup	git branch --merged | grep -v '*' | xargs git branch -d	git config --global alias.cleanup "!git branch --merged | grep -v '*' | xargs git branch -d"

Table 4: This is the best solution I can figure out. It's just not perfect!

Alias	Command	What to Type
git cleanup	git branch --merged | grep -v '*' | xargs git branch -d	git config --global alias.cleanup "!git branch --merged | grep -v '*' | xargs git branch -d"

Is there a better way to show | sign in the Table Cell with Inline Code syntax in a Markdown document?

[doggy8088]

I found the right way to escape pipe character. 😃

Table 5: Extreme solution! Ref: GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec - Example 193

Alias	Command	What to Type
git cleanup	git branch --merged | grep -v '*' | xargs git branch -d	git config --global alias.cleanup "!git branch --merged | grep -v '*' | xargs git branch -d"

[yairEO]

I didn't get it, how did you manage?

I don't see how the example linked solved it and I cannot see the markdown source of your working table in the last comment, only the rendered result :/

(showing the markdown with <pre> tags around it)

Name         | Type         | Default           
------------ | ------------ | ----------------- 
xxx          | xxx          | `/,|\.|\:|\s/`

outputs:

Name	Type	Default
xxx	xxx	`/,

[yairEO]

Ok I see now from this discussion in stackoverflow you should escape the pipe characters with a leading backslash \:

/,\|\.\|\:\|\s/

Name	Type	Default
xxx	xxx	/,|\.|\:|\s/

[jonkiparsky]

@yairEO That's a backslash, not a slash!

[rauschma]

I’d prefer not having to escape pipe symbols:

• The point of backticks is that special characters do not have to be escaped – for example, there is no need to escape asterisks or underscores.
• Pandoc does not require escaping pipes: https://pandoc.org/try/?text=%7C+Operator+%7C+Description+%7C%0A%7C----------%7C-------------%7C%0A%7C+%60%7C%60++++++%7C+Bitwise+Or++%7C%0A%7C+%60%26%60++++++%7C+Bitwise+And+%7C%0A%7C+%60%5E%60++++++%7C+Bitwise+Xor+%7C&from=markdown&to=html5&standalone=0

[rauschma]

One more argument in favor of not escaping – elsewhere, `\|` is rendered as a backslash followed by a pipe: \|

Currently, moving such markup to a table means that the backslash will disappear.

[aremmell]

Bump!