Thank you. I was not using the latest pandoc version. Having upgraded I 
tried the conversion again and this time a conversion was carried out, but 
now all lines that consist of a single pipe character are completely 
removed from the resulting markdown file. 

Is this expected behaviour?

On Friday, June 2, 2023 at 7:40:02 PM UTC+1 John MacFarlane wrote:

> Sounds like a bug in the org reader, which should be reported on our issue 
> tracker, if you can give a short reproducible example. (Also make sure 
> you've tested it with the latest pandoc.)
>
> > On Jun 2, 2023, at 9:20 AM, bob <bob...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > I have an org file which I am trying to convert to markdown. It is 
> having trouble with lines in the file that consist of a single pipe (|) 
> character only. Such files cause pandoc to hang during the conversion, with 
> the memory usage steadily increasing. 
> > 
> > Anyone know of a way I can get this type of conversion to succeed, 
> without changing the file contents?
> > 
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