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Spaces and other characters in account names

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I am trying to run a query against a database by selecting only specific accounts, but I'm running into some issues.The naming convention of the accounts varies and my query runs correctly for some but not others. For accounts containing spaces or other characters there seems to be an issue, whereas accounts that do not contain these work fine. 

If two different accounts are named as such:
1. AccountNameAccountNumberSubAccount
2. AccountName AccountNumber-SubAccount


If I use: where account = `AccountNameAccountNumberSubAccount then everything works fine, but if I use:
where account = `AccountName AccountNumber-SubAccount then it fails


It seems like it is not recognizing the entire string as the account name, but rather just the first piece. Any suggestions on how to fix this problems would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. 
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charlie
New Contributor II
New Contributor II
hi,

you can wrap that as a char vector, and then cast it to a symbol, .e.g

.. where account = (`$"AccountName AccountNumber-SubAccount")

hth