Escaping

There are two reserved characters that have special meaning to LightDB-A Database:

• The designated delimiter character separates columns or fields in the data file.
• The newline character designates a new row in the data file.

If your data contains either of these characters, you must escape the character so that LightDB-A treats it as data and not as a field separator or new row. By default, the escape character is a \ (backslash) for text-formatted files and a double quote (“) for csv-formatted files.

• Escaping in Text Formatted Files

• Escaping in CSV Formatted Files

Parent topic: Formatting Data Files