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Problem 506. Back to basics 25 - Valid variable names

Created by Alan Chalker

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Covering some basic topics I haven't seen elsewhere on Cody.

Given a string, return true if it is a valid MATLAB variable name, but not a MATLAB keyword, false otherwise

Examples:

    'foo' -> true
    'while' -> false

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Last Solution submitted on Jan 13, 2020

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Jihye Sofia Seo on 9 Feb 2017

I appreciate this series of problems introduce me to new functions in MATLAB. Thanks!

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A C on 26 Jul 2018

Why is 1foo false?
x = '1foo';
y_correct = false;

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