☜	ASCII 94 M[UMPS] by Example					☞

Caret, also known as circumflex ("^")

ASCII code 94.

This character preceeds the name of global variables and routines.
Do ^%G
Set ^PATIENT(ID,1)=AGE_"|"_BRTHDATE

Note that the caret character precedes names. It is not counted as a character when determining the length of a name.

Addition in the 1995 ANSI M[UMPS] language standard:

This character preceeds the name of structured system variables.
^$Character, ^$Routine, etcetera

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