How to change separator between categories

I’ve created a template that shows the following:

categories
Linked title
date

I want the categories to be separated by “|” instead of “,”

I thought I’d found it in the helper-posts.php file here:

‘code’ => ‘[post_terms tax=”category” sep=”, “]’,

but changing that did nothing. Where can I go to change the separator between categories?

Thanks.

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