well, then write an UDF to convert bag to string will work for me.


On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Mark <static.void....@gmail.com> wrote:
>  So if I have a tuple that looks like:
>
> ({(163906653),(61482111),(157530223)})
>
> There is no way to get that to output as:
>
> 163906653/t61482111/t157530223
>
> ???
>
> On 9/15/10 5:19 PM, Olga Natkovich wrote:
>>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> Both PigStorage and BinStorage allow you to store complex types such as
>> bags. So you can do something like this:
>>
>> A = load 'mydata' as (x, y, z);
>> B = group A by x;
>> C = foreach B generate A;
>> store C;
>>
>> If you don't like the formatting done by the store function, you can
>> create a storage function that formats the data the way you like.
>>
>> Olga
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mark [mailto:static.void....@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 5:05 PM
>> To: pig-user@hadoop.apache.org
>> Subject: Basic questions
>>
>>   Say I have a bunch of tuples that is a result of a GROUP, how can I
>> just store the values.. not the key?
>>
>> As a side note, how can I output bags to be separated by tabs instead of
>> commas? How can I remove the annoying parentheses and brackets around my
>> output?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>



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