HFM Member names in library

Hi all,
We are new to HFM and we are in the beginning stages of building the dimension library. Can someone please tell me if you can have "spaces" or "dashes" in the member names?
i.e.:
Account dim:
A-789389
Entity dim:
12510-8794
Thanks

Spaces can be used.
But minus sign (-) cannot be.
As a good practice would suggest use spaces sparingly and a single space at max to avoid retrieval issues in writing smartview reports.
hope this helps

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