List of Special Characters
Special characters are neither alphabetic or numeric. The CoB platform relies on the ElasticSearch search engine, whose Query String syntax 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 |
| ` | |
! | Exclamation mark |
( (opens) and ) (closes) | Parentheses |
{ and } | Braces |
[ and ] | Square Brackets |
^ | Caret |
" | Double Quotes |
~ | Tilde |
* | Asterisk |
? | Question Mark |
: | Colon |
\ | Backslash |
/ | Slash |