[Original] Uncle Experience Sharing (78) hive query error NoViableAltException

Hive or spark executed sql character constant contains; will complain when, for example,

select instr('abc;abc', ';');

An error

NoViableAltException (-1 @ [147: 1: selectExpression: (expression | tableAllColumns)])

Need; instead ascii

select instr('abc\073abc', '\073');