A long cylindrical shell carries positive surface charge $σ$ in the upper half and negative surface charge $- σ$ in the lower half. The electric field lines around the cylinder will look like figure given in:

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Using the properties of a dipole and laws of electric field line where two lines should not intersect, the graph would be,

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