How to escape the pipe symbol in jade?

Question

In jade the pipe symbol (|) is used for plain text output. What if I want to write it in page? How can I escape it?

Kumquat

Have you tried using | directly? – Budweis

no, but it's not too handy. I've found a first solution, though, see below – Kumquat

Answer 1

I've just found a possible solution: use the pipe itself to escape the pipe instruction:

|| hello

will output

| hello

and that's true for about any reserved symbol: us the pipe in front so it will be treated as plain text

Kumquat