Identifiers:
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Must start with a letter
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Can have up to 40 characters, but no spaces
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Are case insensitive (PART, Part, and part are identical)
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Can include any combination of letters, numbers, and these special characters:
- Dash
_ Underscore
$ Dollar sign
# Number sign
% Percent sign
Joining words in multiword names
Since InfoMaker does not allow spaces in identifiers, you can use any of the following techniques to join words in an identifier:
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Initial caps (for example, IncomeJanuary)
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Dashes (for example, northeast-sales)
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Underscores (for example, quantity_on_hand)
Examples
Here are some valid identifiers:
first_quarter_summary EMPLOYEE_LABELS EmployeeSalarySummary Employee_by_#
Here are some invalid identifiers:
2nd-quarter // Does not start with a letter emp list // Contains a space Employee'sInfo // Contains an invalid character
You cannot use the following reserved words as identifiers, because InfoMaker uses them internally:
Table A-1: Reserved words
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