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Identifiers for documents, devices, languages and code: DOIs for articles and datasets, IMEI numbers for mobile devices, language and locale tags such as en-US, and dotted, reverse-DNS names of code packages and classes.

4 code types: none a sibling also accepts, 3 that decompose into parts.

4 types

The 4 code types

Each type's first registry sample, against every sibling's rule

TypeSampleAlso accepted by
DOI
doi · VARCHAR
10.1038/nature12373—
IMEI
imei · VARCHAR
490154203237518—
Locale Code
locale_code · VARCHAR
en—
Qualified Name
qualified_name · VARCHAR
com.google.javascript.jscomp.Compiler—

Which code type is it?

1 of 4 code types accepts it.

TypeReads it as
DOI doi10.1038/nature12373

Use it

Shell
printf '%s\n' '10.1038/nature12373' '10.1000/xyz123' > column.txt
finetype infer -f column.txt --mode column
DuckDB
SELECT ft_profile(v) FROM (VALUES ('10.1038/nature12373'), ('10.1000/xyz123')) t(v);

After 10.1000/xyz123, one type remains: doi.

Type Registry