[Coco] What are the rules for naming basic09 variables ?

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 26 July 2019 16:21:58 Wayne Campbell wrote:

> Up to 29 characters, 0-9, a-z, A-Z, _
>
I think its 28 active, to make room for the terminating zero of the 
string.

> $ only if a string variable, only as last character of the variable
> name. Not sure, but I think first character has to be a letter?
>
> Wayne
>
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2019, 1:00 PM <coco at jechar.ca> wrote:
> >   I have seen examples of variable names 10 or 11 characters long
> > and of the $ being used in a
> >   variable name.
> >
> >   So I know that alpha numeric and $ are legal components and at
> > least 10 characters long but I cannot
> >   find the explicit rules so for example is underscore a legal
> > variable name component, what is the
> >   maximum number of characters  in a variable and are they all used
> > or for example would
> >   VARIABLE1 be the same as VARIABLE2 because first eight characters
> > are all the same ?
> >
> >   Only answer what you know for sure. I could always try writing a
> > bunch of test programs to
> >   come up with the rules experimentally but perhaps someone knows
> > the exact restrictions on basic09
> >   variable naming ?
> >
> >   Charles
> >
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