escaping underscores in a select statement

I’m trying to select from a table, where the column names have underscores: i.e.

 select underscore_column from table

and i believe q doesn’t like this since _ is reserved.  How can I escape the _ in the statement?

thanks,

_ should be ok in a column name.. are you sure there isn’t anything else? Can you send a meta of the table?

EDIT: unless you meant the column name started with an _ - that’s not allowed

If there is something dodgy about the column names you can always use functional select

http://code.kx.com/wiki/JB:QforMortals2/queries_q_sql#Functional_Forms

Thanks you were right.  I think the underlying table was splayed or partitioned.  I assigned my result to a new local table, and was able to do the select.