MySQL syntax error accessing table 'char'

[Gedankenthank]

I cannot access the table 'char' in mysql due to char being a command within sql. It keeps giving me a syntax error, even though I know the syntax is right because I can replace 'char' with any other table and it works fine. I've confirmed the table 'char' does exist.

 

This came about because my client keeps disconnecting when trying to create a character. I tried manually creating one in the terminal but ran into this problem. Does anyone know how to get around this? I can't seem to find any info on it.

 

I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 with the mysql 5.5.

 

Thanks

[nitrous]

Put backticks (`) around it, so it looks like this

SELECT * FROM `char`

[Gedankenthank]

Awesome that works! Thanks!

 

The characters I tried to create are correctly in the database, so my client crashing was unrelated.