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Escape Characters	/tdengine-reference/sql-manual/escape-characters

Escape Character Table

Character Sequence	Represents Character
\'	Single quote '
\"	Double quote "
\n	Newline character
\r	Carriage return
\t	Tab character
\\	Backslash \
\%	% see below for rules
\_	_ see below for rules

Rules for Using Escape Characters

1. Identifiers contain escape characters (database names, table names, column names, aliases)
   1. Regular identifiers: Directly prompt an error for the identifier, because identifiers are required to be numbers, letters, and underscores, and cannot start with a number.
   2. Backtick `` identifiers: Keep as is, do not escape
2. Data contains escape characters
   1. Encountering the defined escape characters will trigger escaping (% and _ see below), if there is no matching escape character, the escape symbol \ will be ignored (\x remains as is).
   2. For % and _, since these two characters are wildcards in like, use \% and \_ in pattern matching like to represent the characters % and _ themselves. If \% or \_ are used outside the like pattern matching context, their results are the strings \% and \_, not % and _.