Names

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Names are given to variables, fields in work areas, properties, events, methods, functions, and classes. The following rules are the naming conventions in dBL:

A name begins with an underscore or letter, and contains any combination of underscores, letters, spaces, or digits.

If the name contains spaces, it must be enclosed in colons.

The letters may be uppercase or lowercase. dBL is not case-sensitive.

With dBL, beginning with dBASE Plus version 10.0, the first 256 characters in a name are significant. There can be more than 256, but the extra characters are ignored.

(Note that prior to version 10.0, only the first 32 characters in a name were significant)

The following are some examples of valid names:

x

:First name:

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