.Q.hg failure question

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How can .Q.hg be used with unusual chars (=,?,&) in an http url?

http://code.kx.com/wiki/DotQ/DotQDothg

KDB+ 3.5t 2017.02.03 Copyright (C) 1993-2017 Kx Systems

m32/ 4()core 4096MB xxx xxx 255.255.255.255 NONEXPIRE  

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q).Q.hg`:http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=FTR+CTL+LVLT+T+VZ&f=sr

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  [0]  .Q.hg`:http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=FTR+CTL+LVLT+T+VZ&f=sr

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q).Q.hg`$“:http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=FTR+CTL+LVLT+T+VZ&f=sr”

“"FTR",N/A\n"CTL",14.98\n"LVLT",5.71\n"T",19.64\n"VZ",15.13\n”

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Thanks Charles,

I should have remembered cast to symbol: http://code.kx.com/wiki/Reference/DollarSign#cast

`$“foo” is shorthand for “S”$“foo”

q)url:“http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=FTR+CTL+LVLT+T+VZ&f=sr”

q).Q.hg`$url

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q).Q.hg"S"$url