Re: Autosave ignores PVs starting with some characters

[Eric Norum <eric@norum.ca>]

The Application Developer’s Guide may say those are the legal characters for process variable names, but there doesn’t seem to be much of a restriction.  I know of one major EPICS installation that makes heavy use of curly braces “{}” in process variable names even though those characters are deemed illegal.

On Sep 8, 2016, at 10:54 AM, Konrad, Martin <konrad@frib.msu.edu> wrote:

Regarding '_', '-', ':', '[', ']', '<', '>', and ';' I don't see any
reason why they shouldn't be allowed at the beginning of a record/PV
name. These characters might not be my first choice to start a record
name with but they seem to be allowed and in my mind should be handled
by Autosave like alpha-numeric characters.

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Eric Norum
eric@norum.ca