Thanks Robin,

From which you've deduced they are "all" significant? I really
should have done some such similar thing myself, but I know
you guys like to feel "used"???

No, I mean, you like to participate!

Thanks,

Joe

PS  -- I still liked the way it was  spelled out in black & white in FBII.
Oh, and how come you're not using the soft return? Option/L, or can
that be done "inside" VARS? Another ponderable?


Robin wrote:

> >> "length [can be] up to 240 characters. Only the first 15 are significant."
> >>
> >> I couldn't find a corresponding statement in the FBIII ref. (I've got 1.4.)
> >
> > Geeze, Lucy - thanks!
> >
> > I knew it was there somewhere. Now, I need to know - do these
> > same limitations apply to FB^3? I'm trying to list FB^3s limitations
> > and, as best I can determine, there is no equivalent to FBII's
> > Variable Name Rules in FB^3's documentation. Help anyone?
>
> The FB^3 Reference Manual p7 says this:
>
> An identifier is a name that you make up to identify something in your
> program.  In FB^3, identifiers are used to name the following kinds of
> things: € variables (see Appendix B); € arrays (see below); € user-defined
> functions (see the LOCAL FN , LONG FN  etc. statements); € user-defined data
> types (see the #DEFINE  and BEGIN RECORD statements); € record fields (see
> the BEGIN RECORD  and DIM  statements); € symbolic constants (see the
> 3Constant declaration2 statement). In FB^3, an identifier can have any
> length up to 245 characters.  It must star with a letter; its subsequent
> characters can be any combination of letters, numeric digits, and underscore
> characters ( _ ) (symbolic constant names should not contain embedded
> underscores).  Identifiers which represent...
>
> This doesn't actually say how many of the 245 are significant, from which I
> deduce (?) they all are! Furthermore, being a scientist, I did an
> experiment. If you do a test compile on the following (you'll have to
> re-merge the split variable names), you will find that the second "dim a" is
> marked as a redefined variable error, but the second version of my very long
> variable (245 chars) is not. Elementary, my dear Dr Watson.
>
> defint a-z
> end globals
>
> clear local
> dim a
> dim a
> dim
> thisisareallylongvariablenamelikeitmustbeover50characterslonginfacttohereiti
> ss80thisisareallylongvariablenamelikeitmustbeover50characterslonginfacttoher
> eitiss80thisisareallylongvariablenamelikeitmustbeover50characterslonginfactt
> ohereitiss80four1
> dim
> thisisareallylongvariablenamelikeitmustbeover50characterslonginfacttohereiti
> ss80thisisareallylongvariablenamelikeitmustbeover50characterslonginfacttoher
> eitiss80thisisareallylongvariablenamelikeitmustbeover50characterslonginfactt
> ohereitiss80four2
> local fn Tester
> end fn
>
> WINDOW 1,"",(0,0)-(500,400),_dialogFrame
> tron break
>
> fn Tester
>
> do
> until fn button