Question

Which of the following special symbol allowed in a variable name?
A. * (asterisk)
B. | (pipeline)
C. - (hyphen)
D. _ (underscore)

Answer 1

Special symbol allowed in variable name is -

D. _ (underscore)

• Variable also known as data item is a storage location in computer programming that stores value.

• Variable name must contain only letters and digits. Both upper case and lower case letters are allowed in the name.

• Only one special character is permitted, which is underscore (_). Variable name can not start with digit.

• Possible variable names are - fhg, fks_rba, _els58.