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Blake Visin commented on CASSANDRA-2898: ---------------------------------------- I did not explain exactly. Try cqlsh> update foo set 'fmd:test' = 'foo' where key = 'test'; Unmatched named substitution: 'test' not given for update foo set 'fmd:test' = 'foo' where key = 'test'; You can not escape a colon. > 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