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[@salesforce/b2c-tooling-sdk](../../../modules.md) / [operations/cip](../index.md) / quoteIdentifierIfReserved

# Function: quoteIdentifierIfReserved()

> **quoteIdentifierIfReserved**(`name`): `string`

Defined in: [packages/b2c-tooling-sdk/src/operations/cip/sql.ts:63](https://github.com/SalesforceCommerceCloud/b2c-developer-tooling/blob/0c642abce71b645ae9df3c6046c2bf8396a2845c/packages/b2c-tooling-sdk/src/operations/cip/sql.ts#L63)

Quotes a SQL identifier if it collides with a Calcite reserved word.

Pass a bare column name; if it is a reserved word it is returned double-quoted
(for example `method` -> `"method"`), otherwise it is returned unchanged. Use this
whenever a report references a column whose name might be reserved.

## Parameters

### name

`string`

Bare column or identifier name

## Returns

`string`

The identifier, double-quoted only if it is a Calcite reserved word