names

Description

Names of variables and functions must begin with a letter or one of the following special characters '%', '_', '#', '!', '$', '?'.

Next characters may be letters or digits or any special character in '_', '#', '!', '$', '?'.

Names may be as long as you want but only the first 24 characters are taken into account. If you exceed this limit you get a warning. Please note that this limitation will be fixed with the release of Scilab 6.

Examples

//Valid names
%eps
A1=123
#Color=8
My_Special_Color_Table=rand(10,3)
//Non valid names
//1A , b%, .C

// Long names
Try_to_use_a_long_name = 1 // long, but not too
Try_to_use_a_too_long_name = 1 // too long

// let we insert a second variable with similar long name...
Try_to_use_a_too_long_name2 = 2

// ... and see the value of first variable
disp(Try_to_use_a_too_long_name)
// Please note that this limitation will be fixed with the release of Scilab 6.