Vertical lines in visual studio codes editor window?

Question

I have these wierd two vertical lines in VSCode editor window. What are they & how do you remove them?

The following was in my settings.json file that caused the problem:

"editor.rulers": [
        72,50
    ],

They look like line length guides so you can tell if your lines of code are too long for whatever coding style you use, but they’re placed very early for that (usually the default would be 80 chars). — Daniel H, Feb 09 '19 at 03:37
Possibly some extension modified the editor.rulers setting? It is not set by default. — Mark, Feb 09 '19 at 04:47
Possible duplicate of [Vertical rulers in Visual Studio Code?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29968499/vertical-rulers-in-visual-studio-code) — Gama11, Feb 10 '19 at 10:48

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 09 '19 at 03:52

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Remove the "editor.rulers": [140] from editor settings as follows:

answered Feb 09 '19 at 03:52

TanvirArjel

@coding4fun Sure! I have checked it my side and that was the issue. – TanvirArjel Feb 09 '19 at 15:53
out of curiosity do you know the purpose of the lines. I can't think of anything they would be helpful for.... – coding4fun Feb 09 '19 at 18:15
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Most code style guidelines impose limits in line lenghts to avoid the need of horizontal scroll. – Álvaro González Feb 10 '19 at 14:11
@coding4fun Hi, You did not give me any update as you said! – TanvirArjel Feb 14 '19 at 11:16
@TanvirArjel Sorry for taking so long to report back. I just got busy with other things but yep that was the problem. Thanks for your help – coding4fun Feb 14 '19 at 14:46
@coding4fun No problem my friend! I see were away from stack overflow few days. – TanvirArjel Feb 14 '19 at 14:47

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