Why the Cypher doesn't support quotes in property key? For eg. The following will throw an error: CREATE (l:Label { 'name': "Some Int'l name" } ) RETURN l Invalid input ''': expected whitespace, comment, a property key name, '}', an identifier or UnsignedDecimalInteger But followi…

surround it with backticks (on the kwyboard the tilde key) instead of double quotes.

Why Cypher doesn't support quote in property keys?

ri8ika ( Ri8ika) April 29, 2019, 5:45am 4

Okay, I have managed to use entry manually rather than json object.

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