Not with standard storage functions that we have.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark [mailto:static.void....@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 5:33 PM
To: pig-user@hadoop.apache.org
Subject: Re: Basic questions

  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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