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Identifiers

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Identifiers

Use an identifier as a named token to specify a variable, type, field, method, or function.

Errors

If a keyword is used as an identifier.

Grammar

ID: [_a-zA-Z] [_a-zA-Z-0-9]*;

Examples

Variations of identifiers.
```
a
Z
id
list
list0
MAP25
_map25
Map_25
```

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