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| title: Escaping |
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| There are two reserved characters that have special meaning to HAWQ: |
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| - The designated delimiter character separates columns or fields in the data file. |
| - The newline character designates a new row in the data file. |
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| If your data contains either of these characters, you must escape the character so that HAWQ 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. |
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| - **[Escaping in Text Formatted Files](../../datamgmt/load/g-escaping-in-text-formatted-files.html)** |
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| - **[Escaping in CSV Formatted Files](../../datamgmt/load/g-escaping-in-csv-formatted-files.html)** |
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