Problem 506. Back to basics 25 - Valid variable names

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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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