varname
varname — The name of a variable.
Synopsis
- Zero or more of:
- text
phrase(db._phrase)replaceable- Graphic inlines
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- Indexing inlines
- Linking inlines
- Ubiquitous inlines
altanchorannotationbibliorefindexterm(db.indexterm.endofrange)indexterm(db.indexterm.singular)indexterm(db.indexterm.startofrange)inlinemediaobjectlinkolinkremarksubscriptsuperscriptxref
Attributes
Description
A varname identifies a variable name in a
programming or expression language. Variables most often get their
values from literals, replaceable
values, constants, or symbols.
Processing expectations
Formatted inline.
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This element occurs in 51 elements.
Children
This element contains 16 elements.
See Also
command, computeroutput, constant, literal, markup, option, optional, parameter, prompt, replaceable, tag, userinput
Examples
1 <article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'> 2 <title>Example varname</title> 4 <para>In Perl, <varname>@ARGV</varname> contains the command line parameters used when the script was run. 6 </para> 8 </article>
In Perl, @ARGV contains the command line parameters
used when the script was run.