> I thought markdown tables used the pipe character as the delimiter between table columns. Markdown (the original one by John Gruber) does not include any syn

> I thought markdown tables used the pipe character as the delimiter between table columns. Markdown (the original one by John Gruber) does not include any syntax for tables. Other implementations have included it, but there is no standard. As far as I know, using the pipe character to separate columns is indeed quite common, but it is not the only way.