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Olga Natkovich updated PIG-731:
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Fix Version/s: (was: 0.10)
> Passing semicolon as a parameter in UDF causes parser error
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>
> Key: PIG-731
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-731
> Project: Pig
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: grunt
> Affects Versions: 0.3.0
> Reporter: Viraj Bhat
> Assignee: Xuefu Zhang
> Attachments: CONCATSEP.jar, semicolonerr.pig
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>
> Pig script, which uses a UDF loads in 3 chararray columns, and then
> concatenates columns 2 and 3 using a semicolon.
> {code}
> register CONCATSEP.jar;
> A = LOAD 'someinput/*' USING PigStorage(';') as
> (col1:chararray,col2:chararray,col3:chararray);
> B = FOREACH A GENERATE col1, string.CONCATSEP(';',col2,col3) as newcol;
> STORE B INTO 'someoutput' USING PigStorage(';');
> {code}
> The following script causes an error during the parsing stage due to the
> semicolon present in the UDF.
> =================================================================================
> 2009-03-24 15:50:56,454 [main] ERROR org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.Grunt - ERROR
> 1000: Error during parsing. Lexical error at line 3, column 49. Encountered:
> <EOF> after : "\';"
> Details at logfile: /homes/viraj/pig-svn/trunk/pig_1237935055635.log
> =================================================================================
> There is no workaround for the same, expect to hardcode this in the UDF.
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