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SET ESCAPE ON;
Escape Characters
To query on words or symbols that have special meaning to query expressions such as and & or| accum, you must escape them. There are two ways to escape characters in a query expression:
In the following examples, an escape sequence is necessary because each expression contains a Text operator or reserved symbol:
'AT\&T' '{AT&T}' 'high\-voltage' '{high-voltage}'
If you use braces to escape an individual character within a word, the character is escaped, but the word is broken into three tokens.
For example, a query written as high{-}voltage searches for high - voltage, with the space on either side of the hyphen.