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<h1>Identifiers and reserved words</h1>

<h2>1) Variable identifiers</h2>

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The first character must be an alphabetic (A-Z, a-z) or an underscore character "_". Subsequent characters can be alphabetic, underscore or numeric (0-9). Variable identifiers are not case sensitive. The maximum length is 32.
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Example:
    VARIABLE
    _flag
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<h2>2) Label identifiers</h2>

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Label identifiers consist of alphabetic, underscore or numeric characters, and are not case sensitive. The maximum length is 32.
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Example:
    label1
    100
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<h2>3) Reserved words</h2>

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The following words are reserved:
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[Command]
    bplusrecv, bplussend, changedir... (see the <A HREF="../command/index.html">command list</A>)

[Operator]
    and, not, or, xor

[System variable]
    groupmatchstr1, groupmatchstr2, groupmatchstr3, groupmatchstr4, groupmatchstr5,
    groupmatchstr6, groupmatchstr7, groupmatchstr8, groupmatchstr9, inputstr,
    matchstr, param2, param3, param4, param5, param6, param7, param8, param9,
    result, timeout
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