- Can be at most 30 characters in length.
- Only alphabets, digits and hyphen are allowed.
- Blanks are not allowed.
- May not begin or end with a hyphen.
- Should not be a COBOL reserved word like ADD,SUBTRACT,MOVE,DISPLAY etc….
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a ton of thanks for the ans and pliz gt me d example. i really nid it.
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