LDC-Q0001 — The query has a character the language does not allow

What it means

A LawQL query is read character by character before anything else happens: names, numbers, punctuation the query language defines. A character outside that alphabet — pasted from a chat window, a smart quote from a text editor — stops the read at that exact spot. Nothing is searched; the query never reaches the data.

The fix is local to the reported line and column: delete or retype the offending character. The rest of the query stays as written.

Example

LawQL

???

Fix

LawQL

from r in rules select r

Engine message

The engine reports this in its own wording:

Output

LDC-Q0001: unexpected character '?' (line 1, column 1).

Related

• Questions to the engine — what a well-formed query looks like.