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Brandon Williams commented on CASSANDRA-2898: --------------------------------------------- I don't see the problem: {noformat} cqlsh> create columnfamily foo (KEY text primary key); cqlsh> update foo set 'fmd:' = 'foo' where key = 'test'; cqlsh> select * from foo where key = 'test'; KEY | fmd: | test | foo | cqlsh> cqlsh> select 'fmd:' from foo where key = 'test'; fmd: | foo | cqlsh> update foo set 'fmd;' = 'foo' where key = 'test'; cqlsh> select 'fmd:'..'fmd;' from foo where key = 'test'; fmd: | fmd; | foo | foo | cqlsh> {noformat} > Escape characters in CQL > ------------------------ > > Key: CASSANDRA-2898 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2898 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Drivers > Reporter: Blake Visin > Assignee: Brandon Williams > Labels: cql > > When trying to get all the columns named "fmd:" in cqlsh you can not escape : > or ; > As per Jonathan Ellis: > You can escape quotes but I don't think you can escape semicolons. > Try: > sqlsh> select 'fmd:'..'fmd;' from feeds; -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira