A 'problem?', in R:Base, no. I think the difficulty arises when you use '#' in ODBC. I'm not sure about R:Tango.
The underscore is the default used to represent any single character in an rbase search. (similar to the '?' in a DOS search such as DIR abc??.rb?) So you would have to be aware that searching F_Name would also return F1Name and so forth unless you changed the default representing 'single.' Randy Peterson ----- Original Message ----- From: "marc schluter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 2:47 PM Subject: Column and var names > Hi all > > I have several columns and vars with names like > F_name, L_name, Vcust#, Cust#2 .... > > Someone told me that I should change these names and > get rid of the # and _ . > > Is there a problem using # and _ in col and vars? > > thanks > marc > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs > http://www.hotjobs.com > ================================================ > TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l > ================================================ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l > ================================================ > TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: > http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ > > ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
