Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

As a test I removed the check for [a-zA-Z0-9] and characters like '-' work perfectly fine.
Only space is a problem.
Why is the limitation to [a-zA-Z0-9] there?

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Title:
  Invalid charactor in field name

Status in EPICS Base:
  New

Bug description:
  When creating a group in QSRV, the allowed characters are too
  restrictive

  error:
  Error Group not created: Invalid charactor '-' (45) in field name "BI02-TimeRise" must be A-Z, a-z, 0-9, or '_'

  expected behaviour:
  pva structures should allow for a more liberal set of characters that just what is covered by \w regex metacharacter.

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[Bug 1935037] [NEW] Invalid charactor in field name Niko Kivel via Core-talk

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