varname

varname — The name of a variable.

Synopsis

varname ::=

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.

Attributes

Common linking attributes.

any attribute

Any attribute in any other explicit namespace

Children

The following elements occur in varname: text, abbrev, acronym, alt, anchor, annotation, biblioref, coref, date, emphasis (db._emphasis), firstterm (db._firstterm), footnote, footnoteref, foreignphrase (db._foreignphrase), glossterm (db._glossterm), indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject, link, olink, phrase (db._phrase), quote (db._quote), remark, replaceable, subscript, superscript, trademark, wordasword, xref.

Examples

1 |<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
  |<title>Example varname</title>
  | 
  |<para>In Perl, <varname>@ARGV</varname> contains the command line parameters
5 |used when the script was run.
  |</para>
  | 
  |</article>

In Perl, @ARGV contains the command line parameters used when the script was run.