MongoDB collection hyphenated name

Question

I\'m using Node.js program to insert data into a MongoDB database. I have inserted data into a collection named \"repl-failOver\".

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Answer 1

You are getting this error from accessing collections with specific characters (-, _, ). I explained the workaround here, but basically all you need is to do

db.getCollection("repl-failOver").insert(...)