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Reserved Characters and Words
Certain characters and words are reserved for special purposes in the Zim software.
Reserved Characters
These characters are sometimes called meta-characters. Reserved characters include
- quotation marks (” and ‘) that define and enclose character strings
- spaces that are the default field separator (delimiter)
- backslashes () that escape other characters
- percent signs (%) that mark the start of a comment
- question marks (?) that, when not in quotation marks, are a wildcard indicator
- braces ({ and }) that mark and enclose case expressions
Reserved Words
You cannot use any reserved word as a database, application, or filename in Zim. Reserved words include
- any automatically generated filename in the form “prefix_99999″ where the prefix is a name automatically generated by Zim
- the strings, words, commands, and function names are found in the following table:
| $absolute | $toupper | inout |
| $acos | $tovirtual | input |
| $adddays | $translate | insert |
| $addhours | $trim | intersect |
| $addminutes | $truncate | into |
| $addmonths | $ttrim | is |
| $addseconds | $userfunction | keep |
| $addticks | $usrfn1 | label |
| $addweeks | $usrfn2 | leftmargin |
| $addyears | $usrfn3 | let |
| $and | $value | level |
| $ansitodos | $weekday | li |
| $asin | $wrap | like |
| $atan | $year | line |
| $atan2 | access | list |
| $average | across | local |
| $browsefile | activate | localprocedure |
| $center | add | locate |
| $centre | all | login |
| $chop | always | mask |
| $compilestatus | and | max |
| $concat | any | maximize |
| $cos | append | menu |
| $cosh | as | messages |
| $count | ascending | method |
| $currentmember | at | min |
| $day | avg | minimize |
| $dayname | background | minus |
| $ddefunction | begin | mousepointer |
| $delete | between | move |
| $dirpath | border | newline |
| $distinct | bottom | newpage |
| $dostoansi | bottommargin | next |
| $errmsg | breakable | noprint |
| $eventparameter | bye | not |
| $exist$ | call | null |
| $exp | case | objectevent |
| $filebrowse | center | off |
| $filenum | centre | oldline |
| $filepath | change | on |
| $fileprint | class | open |
| $fill | clearscreen | or |
| $fn | close | order |
| $getproperty | column | otherwise |
| $hours | columnbreak | output |
| $insert | columnspacing | owner |
| $isalphabetic | commit | page |
| $isalphanumeric | compile | pagelines |
| $isdate | complete | pagesize |
| $isdigits | compute | pagewidth |
| $islower | connect | parse |
| $isnumber | const | password |
| $isnumeric | constant | pause |
| $isodd | continue | pencolor |
| $isupper | count | permission |
| $iswinopen | create$$ | pointsize |
| $iszimname | currentset | previous |
| $java | cursor | |
| $lastmember | deactivate | procedure |
| $left | deadlock | prompt |
| $leftjustify | decrypt | quittransaction |
| $length | defaulttype | read |
| $log | define | relationship |
| $log10 | delete | release |
| $ltrim | dependency | remoteexec |
| $mask | descending | rename |
| $max | detail | report |
| $maxof | directory | required |
| $messagebox | disconnect | reset |
| $min | display | restore |
| $minof | dispose | return |
| $minutes | distinct | right |
| $modulus | document | role |
| $money | down | rollback |
| $month | dynamiclist | save |
| $monthname | edit | screen |
| $not | else | scroll |
| $null | elseif | selectivity |
| $objcreate | encrypt | serverexec |
| $objdestroy | end | set |
| $objgetproperty | endcase | size |
| $objrunmethod | endclass | sleep |
| $objsetproperty | endif | some |
| $objstatus | endmethod | sorted |
| $objsubroutine | endon | spaces |
| $oleinsertdialog | endprocedure | span |
| $oleobjectattrs | endreport | startcase |
| $or | endtransaction | statusbartext |
| $pagesetup | endwhile | stop |
| $paintfunction | ent | sum |
| $position | enter | suppress |
| $printersetup | entityset | system |
| $random | erase | to |
| $replace | errors | toolbar |
| $replicate | evaluate | top |
| $right | exception | topmargin |
| $rightclickmenu | exec | transaction |
| $rightjustify | exists | transform |
| $round | expose | transmit |
| $screenprint | field | trim |
| $screensave | fillcolor | uncompile |
| $seconds | find | underline |
| $sendtoserver | fld | |
| $serverfunction | flow | unrelated |
| $setproperty | focus | up |
| $sin | font | update |
| $sinh | fontsize | using |
| $sn | footing | values |
| $soundex | for | variable |
| $sqrt | foreground | verb |
| $squeeze | form | warnings |
| $substring | format | wh |
| $sysdirid | from | width |
| $sysseqno | functionkeys | when |
| $tan | generate | where |
| $tanh | goto | while |
| $ticks | graph | width |
| $toalpha | group | window |
| $tocharacter | having | work |
| $tochr | headings | wrap |
| $todate | help | xor |
| $tolower | hide | xref |
| $tonumber | if | |
| $toord | immediately | |
| $total | in |
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