Reserved Characters

MQL has a list of reserved characters:

•      =, !, <, >: equality and non-equality operators

•      (, ): specify precedence of filters and = ANY, and = ALL list boundaries

•      +, -: integer sign characters and date constant delimiter

•      Comma (,): SELECT, ORDER BY, = ANY, and = ALL list delimiter

•      Space ( ), \t, \n: whitespace characters

•      Single quote ('): bound string constants, date constants or datetime constants used as filter values

•      Double quote ("): quote attribute names, or search words that have spaces or punctuation characters in text filter or semantic_search_text filter

•      Dot (.): used to specify a profile name or related object property