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

Subject: Allowable characters in field names, was Re: Distributing UDFs
From: James Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 09:47:23 -0700
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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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JHHL

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Re: Allowable characters in field names, was Re: Distributing UDFs , Mark S. Waterbury
Re: Allowable characters in field names, was Re: Distributing UDFs , rob

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