Alternate Notations
Acorn operating systems for the Atom, BBC Micro, Archimedes and later RISC OS machines use the vertical bar character | in place of the caret. e.g. |M (pronounced "control M") is the carriage return character, ASCII 13. || is the vertical bar character code 124, |? is character 127 as above and |! adds 128 to the code of the following character, so |!|? is character code 128+127 = 255.
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