SyntaxError: missing ; before statement (shell):1

[gmail]

Hi everyone:

when I save data to the collection which name is number start , the mongo prompt "Mon Jul 16 16:16:44 SyntaxError: missing ; before statement (shell):1 ",

and my command is following：

 

PRIMARY> use testwhb

switched to db testwhb

PRIMARY> db.a.save({"test":"1"})

PRIMARY> db.1.save({"tet2":"1"})

Mon Jul 16 16:16:44 SyntaxError: missing ; before statement (shell):1

PRIMARY> show collections

 

 

Does it mongo limit the collection name start with number??

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[Stephen Steneker]

Hi,

You can use a collection name starting with a number, but the mongo JS shell recognizes that as a beginning a variable rather than a collection name so you need to quote it:

> db["1"].save({"test2":1});

> db["1"].find();

{ "_id" : ObjectId("5003d9c1c27f710e17072683"), "test2" : 1 }

> db.getCollection("1").find()

{ "_id" : ObjectId("5003d9c1c27f710e17072683"), "test2" : 1 }

Cheers,

Stephen 

[gmz]

Collection names should begin with letters or an underscore and may include numbers; $ is reserved. 

在 2012年7月16日星期一UTC+8下午4时28分58秒，Benk写道：

[gmz]

And I think the error message should be more clear

在 2012年7月16日星期一UTC+8下午5时17分10秒，gmz写道：