What Characters are Allowed in a Field Name?¶
In most cases, field (column) names may contain any character except double quote "
, period .
, or colon :
. Underscores are displayed as spaces in the UI.
make_col "ΔT":float64(field3)
make_col "占用率":float64(field4)
make_col "0_3µm":float64(um03)
To reference a field with non-alphanumeric characters in an OPAL statement, use double quotes and prepend @.
.
make_col temp_difference:@."ΔT"
Regex extracted columns (whether features like Extract From Text or OPAL verbs like extract_regex
) are limited to alphanumeric characters (A-Z, a-z, 0-9).