<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">From the doc page <a href="http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/descriptorfile.html#VARS">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/descriptorfile.html#VARS</a><div><i>"varname</i> may contain alphabetic and numeric characters but it
must start with an alphabetic character (a-z)."</div><div>Same rules apply for defined variable names. </div><div>--Jennifer</div><div><br><div><div>On Nov 16, 2011, at 9:29 AM, Becker, Bernd wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>dear all, <br><br>Running opengrads on linux redhat6:<br>(Linux/Versions/2.0.1.oga.1/x86_64/grads)<br><br>I learn about "forbidden" characters in variable names:<br><br>ga-> define obs_t=ave(((tmax+tmin)/2.),t=1,t=32)<br>DEFINE error: Name too long; missing '='<br><br>whereas<br><br>ga-> define obs=ave(((tmax+tmin)/2.),t=1,t=32) <br>Averaging. dim = 3, start = 1, end = 32<br><br>works!<br><br>Dot is an obvious candidate, but _ underscore?<br>which other characters are forbidden in variable names?<br><br>Cheers,<br>Bernd.<br><br><br>--<br>Bernd Becker Climate Impacts Product Development<br>Met Office Hadley Centre FitzRoy Road Exeter Devon EX1 3PB United<br>Kingdom<br>Tel.: +44 (0) 1392 884511 Fax: +44 (0)870 900 5050<br>E-mail:bernd.becker@metoffice.gov.uk -<br><a href="http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/our-scientists/seasonal-to-decadal/">http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/our-scientists/seasonal-to-decadal/</a><br>bernd-becker<br>http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/releases/archive/2011/weather-game<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>gradsusr mailing list<br>gradsusr@gradsusr.org<br>http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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