Having problems with numbers in collection name

[Denis]

Hello,

I have recently started using mongo db for my need.

I'm trying to query a collection named
"summary_from_2009-09-03_06:37", but ending up getting an error.

show collections;

2009
summary_from_2009-09-03_06:37
summary_from_2009-09-03_06:39
system.indexes

db.summary_from_2009-09-03_06:37.find()

Thu Sep 10 15:17:46 JS Error: 09 is not a legal ECMA-262 octal
constant (shell):0
Thu Sep 10 15:17:46 JS Error: SyntaxError: missing ; before statement
(shell):0

For some reason mongo treats collection name as an integer. Should I
parse collection name as a string or otherwise escape it?

[Eliot Horowitz]

That's just a shell issue b/c its javascript.
You can do:
db["summary_from_2009-09-03_06:37"].find()
to work around it.