I came across this code at school
var CAR = ' |8|9|10|11|12|13|15|16|';
I understand that this is a variable named car, but I don't understand how it's being initialized or what it means.
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2It's just a string. If used in an operation, it's the [bitwise OR](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6194950/what-does-the-single-pipe-do-in-javascript) – j08691 Sep 19 '14 at 14:29
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They mean nothing, they're just a character. – Denys Séguret Sep 19 '14 at 14:30
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This is a string, so the `|` is just a `|` – Dr.Avalanche Sep 19 '14 at 14:30
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1in logical operation it means `OR` `||` but on the code example it's just a string. – andrex Sep 19 '14 at 14:30
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It's a pipe | character, and in your case it has absolutely no meaning. You have a string literal, and the text is literally |8|9|10|11|12|13|15|16|.
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It's a bitwise OR when used outside the context of a string. In your case, it's inside a string, so it's probably being used somewhere else in the code as a delimiter of numeric values. ie - 8,9,10,etc.
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