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Gandi
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 Posted - 05/31/2011 : 8:16:56 PM
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According to the Origin help, workbook short names (or more general, child window short names) must consist of letters and numbers only. However, it would be very useful to have a separation character (e.g. "Sample 5, 10 Kelvin" --> "S5-10K"). Dashes or underscores are suppressed, but I found that a single quote (') is accepted. It doesn't seem to cause troubles in scripts either, when a workbook with a single quote in its short name is addressed.
Still, are there any reasons not to use single quotes in child window short names?
Many thanks in advance!
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Origin Ver. and Service Release: Origin Pro 8.5.0 SR1
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Gandi
USA
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Posted - 05/31/2011 : 9:38:05 PM
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While using workbooks with single quotes (') in their short names, I discovered the following reproducible behaviour:
I open a new project and rename the short name of Book1 to A1'1. After entering some random data in col(A), I click "Set Column Values..." of col(B), and in the dialogue box I enter (2*col(A)). Upon clicking OK I get an errror message: "Mismatch parenthesis:(2*A1'1_A)".
Note that this error doesn't occur if I omit the outer brackets in the expression or if I name the workbook A1x1 instead of A1'1.
I assume this means that single quotes in short names of child windows should be avoided - any thoughts? |
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Hideo Fujii
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Posted - 06/01/2011 : 2:11:19 PM
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Hi Gandi,
Short name is not only a shorthand, but more importantly it is used as a reference in the script (either by Origin internally or by user's custom script), so I think it is safe to avoid the special characters as LabTalk as an interpreter interprets the code by substituting the strings.
--Hideo Fujii
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Naming convention for workbook short names