List of Special Characters

Special characters are neither alphabetic or numeric. The CoB platform relies on the ElasticSearch search engine, whose Query String syntax (opens new window) attributes a special meaning to special characters. To use them them in a literal search query, we need to escape them whenever we use them. We escape a special character by inserting a backslash - \- before it. In this article you will find examples of practical use. A list of all characters that can be escaped can be found below:

Character	Name
+	Plus sign
-	Minus sign
=	Equals sign
&&	Double ampersand
||	Double vertical bar
!	Exclamation mark
( (opens) and ) (closes)	Parentheses
{ and }	Braces
[ and ]	Square Brackets
^	Caret
"	Double Quotes
~	Tilde
*	Asterisk
?	Question Mark
:	Colon
\	Backslash
/	Slash