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Identifiers in Siebel eScript

Identifiers are merely names for variables and functions. Programmers must know the names of built-in variables and functions to use them in scripts and must know some rules about identifiers to define their own variables and functions.

eScript Rules for Identifiers

Siebel eScript identifiers follow these rules:

• Identifiers may use only uppercase or lowercase ASCII letters, digits, the underscore (_), and the dollar sign ($). They may use only characters from the following sets:

  ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
  abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
  0123456789
  _$

• Identifiers may not use any of the following characters:

  +<>&|=!*/%^~?:{};()[].'"'#,

• Identifiers must begin with a letter, underscore, or dollar sign, but they may have digits anywhere else.
• Identifiers may not have white space in them, because white space separates identifiers for the Siebel eScript interpreter.
• Identifiers have no built-in length restrictions, so you can make them as long as necessary.

The following identifiers, variables, and functions are valid:

George
Martha7436
annualReport
George_and_Martha_prepared_the_annualReport
$alice
CalculateTotal()
$SubtractLess()
_Divide$All()

The following identifiers, variables, and functions are not valid:

1george
2nancy
this&that
Martha and Nancy
ratsAndCats?
=Total()
(Minus)()
Add Both Figures()

Prohibited Identifiers in Siebel eScript

The following words have special meaning for the Siebel eScript interpreter and cannot be used as identifiers: