Question

I have a web app, that accepts parameters that then go on to create a collection in mongodb. I’m currently doing some testing and using the interactive shell to find if the read and writes are correct. If I use a some character everything works correctly. When I use something with a – or numbers, I get an error. eg:

> db.getCollectionNames();
[ "1", "2", "deviceslist", "system.indexes" ]
> db.1.find()
Sun Oct  9 22:58:22 SyntaxError: missing ; before statement (shell):1
>

Is there something I am missing or does mongodb just dont accept these things??

I’ve tried combinations of

db.’1′.find()
db.”1″.find()

and none seem to work.

Help please..

Answer 1

You should be able to access the collection in the following way:

db[1].find(); 

or

db['1'].find();

but i don’t know, if there are any negative side-effects when naming a collection like so.