Re: Allowable characters in field names, was Re: Distributing UDFs -- MIDRANGE-L

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Limiting discussion to RPG, right? Mark is correct, and the restriction of upper case doesn't apply. All chars are rolled up to upper case.

"Mark S. Waterbury" <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

A-Z, 0-9, @, #, $ and _

On 4/28/2011 12:47 PM, James Lampert wrote:
Alan Campin wrote:

You have to send the object and run the script to create the

function.

And Rob wrote:

There are stored in QSYS2/SYSFUNCS.

Fascinating.

I was led to believe that field names (unless quoted) only accepted
uppercase letters, digits, and underscores. And yet I just learned
empirically that "#" is also allowed. Any other allowable characters

I

don't know about?

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