DIMension syntax checking...

[Bob Stockler]

Mark Luljak wrote (on Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 05:09:19PM -0500):

| The honourable and venerable Bob Stockler spoke thus:
| > If you had used my Perl program "ck.syn" (aka "ck.table") on the
| > table it would have reported:
| > 
| >   Line:  xxx - Array Name "pay " contains illegal character(s).
| > 
| > The illegal character, of course, being a space.
| 
| Except it's not really illegal--it just produced unexpected results because
| it was using a different name for the array than expected due to how it was
| being edited.  The problem is that it -is- legal, technically.

A space is not a legal character in an array name.  From what I know
(which may not be too much):

   Array names must consist of letters, digits and . or _ and may
   begin with any of them.

Bob

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