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Variable names must begin with a letter and must be no longer than 64 characters. It can be made up of the following characters:
| • | _ The underscore character |
| • | 0-9 Any combination of digits |
The following are all valid variable names:
aVariable
aVariable2000
a_variable
a_variable_2000
a_variable$
The following are NOT valid variable names because they begin with a numeric character:
2000variable
12_variable
In addition, the following list of words should not be used as variable names, as they are interpreted by the code for a specific purpose. This list is case insensitive - neither the variable "UNITSIZE" nor "unitsize" can be used.
abs
AbsoluteValue
acos
and
ArcCosine
ArcSine
ArcTangent
ArcTangentXY
asc
ascii
asciiToCharacters
asFloating
asin
asInteger
asString
atan
atan2
beep
block
broker
CanAddUnit
chr
clearscreen
cos
cosine
dayOfMonth
DegreesToRadians
degtorad
do
else
endfunction
endif
endsub
endwhile
entryPrice
exp
exponent
false
findString
findString
for
function
goto
hypot
hypot
hypotenuse
if
instrument
isFloating
isInteger
isString
lcase
left
leftCharacters
len
log
log10
|
long
loop
lowerCase
ltrim
max
mid
middleCharacters
min
mod
monthNumber
newPosition
next
not
or
order
out
pi
print
RadiansToDegrees
random
right
rightCharacters
rtrim
short
sin
sine
sqr
sqr
squareRoot
step
stringLength
sub
system
tan
tangent
test
then
to
toJulian
totalRisk
trim
trimLeftSpaces
trimRightCharacters
trimRightSpaces
trimSpaces
true
type
type
ucase
unitSize
until
upperCase
variables
variables
while
xor
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