If you are new to UnrealScript, you may wonder what the difference between Names and Strings is and when you should use Names instead of Strings. This article will give you some information about that.
Names are restricted to up to 1024 characters, and Name constants allow only alphanumeric characters or underscores. However, you can make a Name variable containing non-alphanumeric characters by converting a string to it like the following.
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Limitation
Names are unmodifiable. You can't cut down the string values of Names like Strings, but you can assign a Name variable to a new value.
Names are restricted to up to 1024 characters, and Name constants allow only alphanumeric characters or underscores. However, you can make a Name variable containing non-alphanumeric characters by converting a string to it like the following.
ANameVar = name(":>");