MongoDB Shell - access collection with period in name?

Question

I have found a collection in one of our MongoDB databases with the name my.collection.

Is there a way to access this collection from the MongoDB shell,

Answer 1

try this instead:

db["my.collection"].findOne();

you run into the same issue with hyphens or any other name that does not match on [a-zA-Z_$][0-9a-zA-Z_$]

This limitation comes from valid named for javascript object properties.