There's Base.isidentifier. Be aware that it's not documented or exported,
though.
julia> Base.isidentifier("1gh")
false
julia> Base.isidentifier("a_b1")
true
On Monday, May 23, 2016 at 3:17:55 PM UTC-4, vav...@uwaterloo.ca wrote:
>
> A macro I'm writing needs a function to check whether a string is a legal
> variable name:
>
> islegalvariablename("a_b1") => true
>
> islegalvariablename("1gh") => false
>
> I suppose this functionality must already be available somewhere?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Vavasis
>
>
>
