How to prevent Make.com functions?

[Bob_Balm]

So, I’m building a GET HTTP request to Dynamics, and in my query parameters I want to use filtering. One of my filter criteria is that ‘last name’ should not contain ‘xxx’. The syntax to do so in Dynamics is:

$filter not contains(lastname,'xxx')

But in Make.com, typing contains( triggers the Make.com function of the same name, which when applied in the scenario will produce an output that I don’t want.

How do I prevent Make.com from interpreting my contains( as a function, and just write it out as a string here?

[samliew]

Type a space after contains, type the bracket, then remove the space.

Or type the bracket elsewhere, cut and paste into position.

[Bob_Balm]

Ahaa yes this fixed it! Thanks!