# Import\_vcf shows field names including backtick

**URL:** <https://discuss.hail.is/t/import-vcf-shows-field-names-including-backtick/2688>\
**Category:** Hail Query & hailctl\
**Created:** [June 2, 2022, 2:24am UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/import-vcf-shows-field-names-including-backtick/2688 "2022-06-02T02:24:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![hojinlee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@hojinlee](https://discuss.hail.is/u/hojinlee)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 2:24am UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/import-vcf-shows-field-names-including-backtick/2688/1 "2022-06-02T02:24:53Z")

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```auto
import hail
hail.init()
kova = hail.import_vcf("/Users/hojin/OneDrive/kova/kova_pairwise_test/kova_pairwise_test_hj.vcf", reference_genome='GRCh37')
kova.describe()
kovatb = kova.entries()
kovatb.describe()
kovatb['`AAChange.refGeneWithVer`']

```

I am using Hail0.2 and I wrote down the following scripts to import the vcf file.  
but, I encountered error that some filed names include backtick like `AAChange.refGeneWithVer`, which makes me can not select filed using field names. And I also tried to use rename(), but it is not work for this case, because in rename({’`AAChange.refGeneWithVer`’ : ‘AAChange.refGeneWithVer’}), could not recognize `AAChange.refGeneWithVer` field name.

Row fields:  
‘locus’: locus  
‘alleles’: array  
‘rsid’: str  
‘qual’: float64  
‘filters’: set  
‘info’: struct {  
**`AAChange.refGeneWithVer`: array,**  
AC: array,  
AF: array,  
ALLELE\_END: bool,  
AN: int32,

… there are many annotation fields

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/hail/original/1X/09005b1009226f2e1e7f17ba406b538dba8c3f27.jpeg)