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Last modified: Sunday, September 01, 1996

A sequence of one or more characters that uniquely identifies a file, variable, account, or other entity. Computer systems impose various rules about naming objects. For example, there is often a limit to the number of characters you can use, and not all characters are allowed.
Names are sometimes called identifiers.

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