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Daniel Tomes commented on PIG-836:
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Daniel, if you actually want to use a backslash as a delimiter you mush escape
that character first by using a second slash. For example, if your delimiter is
\ then you would neet to use '\\' because backslash is a reserve character for
much of regex.
> Allow setting of end-of-record delimiter in PigStorage
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>
> Key: PIG-836
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-836
> Project: Pig
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: impl
> Reporter: George Mavromatis
> Assignee: Benjamin Reed
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> PigStorage allows overriding the default field delimiter ('\t'), but does not
> allow overriding the record delimiter ('\n').
> It is a valid use case that fields contain new lines, e.g. because they are
> contents of a document/web page. It is possible for the user to create a
> custom load/store UDF to achieve that, but that is extra work on the user,
> many users will have to do it , and that udf would be the exact code
> duplicate of the PigStorage except for the delimiter.
> Thus, PigStorage() should allow to configure both field and record separators.
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