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<h3 class="section">F.1 Keywords</h3>
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<p>The following identifiers are keywords, and may not be used as variable
or function names:
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<tr><td width="33%"><code>__FILE__</code></td><td width="33%"><code>__LINE__</code></td><td width="33%"><code>break</code></td></tr>
<tr><td width="33%"><code>case</code></td><td width="33%"><code>catch</code></td><td width="33%"><code>classdef</code></td></tr>
<tr><td width="33%"><code>continue</code></td><td width="33%"><code>do</code></td><td width="33%"><code>else</code></td></tr>
<tr><td width="33%"><code>elseif</code></td><td width="33%"><code>end</code></td><td width="33%"><code>end_try_catch</code></td></tr>
<tr><td width="33%"><code>end_unwind_protect</code></td><td width="33%"><code>endclassdef</code></td><td width="33%"><code>endenumeration</code></td></tr>
<tr><td width="33%"><code>endevents</code></td><td width="33%"><code>endfor</code></td><td width="33%"><code>endfunction</code></td></tr>
<tr><td width="33%"><code>endif</code></td><td width="33%"><code>endmethods</code></td><td width="33%"><code>endparfor</code></td></tr>
<tr><td width="33%"><code>endproperties</code></td><td width="33%"><code>endswitch</code></td><td width="33%"><code>endwhile</code></td></tr>
<tr><td width="33%"><code>enumeration</code></td><td width="33%"><code>events</code></td><td width="33%"><code>for</code></td></tr>
<tr><td width="33%"><code>function</code></td><td width="33%"><code>global</code></td><td width="33%"><code>if</code></td></tr>
<tr><td width="33%"><code>methods</code></td><td width="33%"><code>otherwise</code></td><td width="33%"><code>parfor</code></td></tr>
<tr><td width="33%"><code>persistent</code></td><td width="33%"><code>properties</code></td><td width="33%"><code>return</code></td></tr>
<tr><td width="33%"><code>switch</code></td><td width="33%"><code>try</code></td><td width="33%"><code>until</code></td></tr>
<tr><td width="33%"><code>unwind_protect</code></td><td width="33%"><code>unwind_protect_cleanup</code></td><td width="33%"><code>while</code></td></tr>
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<p>The function <code>iskeyword</code> can be used to quickly check whether an
identifier is reserved by Octave.
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<dt><a name="index-iskeyword"></a><em></em> <strong>iskeyword</strong> <em>()</em></dt>
<dt><a name="index-iskeyword-1"></a><em></em> <strong>iskeyword</strong> <em>(<var>name</var>)</em></dt>
<dd><p>Return true if <var>name</var> is an Octave keyword.
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<p>If <var>name</var> is omitted, return a list of keywords.
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<p><strong>See also:</strong> <a href="Variables.html#XREFisvarname">isvarname</a>, <a href="Status-of-Variables.html#XREFexist">exist</a>.
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