Index Or Name Type

An Index Or Name value holds either a numeric index or a name — never both at once. The index is a Positive Integer; the name is a regular Name.

Graphical representation of the index or name editor

The index or name editor lets you enter either a positive integer index or a quoted name, matching whichever representation you need.

Indices are positive integer values. Names are regular names enclosed in double quotes (“). The following examples are valid indices or names:

1
34
1000
"Amazon"
"North"
"landscape123"
"landscape_123"
"x1_and_a_name"

• Converted from: Name Type, Real Value Type, Integer Value Type, Positive Integer Value Type, Non Negative Integer Value Type, String Type, and Table Value Type.

• Converted to: String Type — always succeeds, converting whichever representation is held (index or name) to its text form. Name Type, Real Value Type, Integer Value Type, Positive Integer Value Type, and Non Negative Integer Value Type — each of these can fail, since an Index Or Name value holds only one representation at a time: converting to Name Type only succeeds if the value actually holds a name, and converting to any of the four numeric types only succeeds if it actually holds an index.

See Type System for the complete conversion reference across all types.