Could be https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-4889
Can you try it with pig 0.16? Koji On Mon, Aug 8, 2016, 3:55:36 PM, Corentin <[email protected]> wrote:Hi, I found a work around for pig 0.15. Just add a space to the end of string and use function TRIM(). Try this: a = load 'test1.txt' using PigStorage(',') as (A:chararray,B:chararray,C:chararray); dump a; b = foreach a generate 'abcd\\\\abcd'; dump b; c = foreach a generate TRIM('abcd\\\\ ’); dump c; From: Christopher Maier Sent: Friday, October 23, 2015 11:39 AM To: '[email protected]' <[email protected]> Cc: Arnaud Balat <[email protected]> Subject: Backslash at end of string literal Hi, Pig seems not to handle backslashes at the end of string literals properly. I've tried several variations and haven't gotten it to work. Backslashes inside of string literals still work fine. Can someone confirm this, or what the correct syntax would be for a string literal ending in a backslash? SCRIPT tgzk9r9@wrnidvmedg001:/data/commonScripts/util/Omniture/pigscripts> cat test2.pig a = load 'test1.txt' using PigStorage(',') as (A:chararray,B:chararray,C:chararray); dump a; b = foreach a generate 'abcd\\\\abcd'; dump b; c = foreach a generate 'abcd\\\\'; dump c; ERROR tgzk9r9@wrnidvmedg001:/data/commonScripts/util/Omniture/pigscripts> pig -f test2.pig INFO [JobControl] org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.FileInputFormat - Total input paths to process : 1 INFO [main] org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.FileInputFormat - Total input paths to process : 1 (a,b,c) INFO [JobControl] org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.FileInputFormat - Total input paths to process : 1 INFO [main] org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.FileInputFormat - Total input paths to process : 1 (abcd\\abcd) ERROR [main] org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.Grunt - ERROR 1000: Error during parsing. Lexical error at line 7, column 0. Encountered: <EOF> after : "" Details at logfile: /data/commonScripts/util/Omniture/pigscripts/pig_1445618087248.log STACK TRACE tgzk9r9@wrnidvmedg001:/data/commonScripts/util/Omniture/pigscripts> cat /data/commonScripts/util/Omniture/pigscripts/pig_1445618087248.log Pig Stack Trace --------------- ERROR 1000: Error during parsing. Lexical error at line 7, column 0. Encountered: <EOF> after : "" org.apache.pig.tools.pigscript.parser.TokenMgrError: Lexical error at line 7, column 0. Encountered: <EOF> after : "" at org.apache.pig.tools.pigscript.parser.PigScriptParserTokenManager.getNextToken(PigScriptParserTokenManager.java:3318) at org.apache.pig.tools.pigscript.parser.PigScriptParser.jj_ntk(PigScriptParser.java:1379) at org.apache.pig.tools.pigscript.parser.PigScriptParser.parse(PigScriptParser.java:106) at org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.GruntParser.parseStopOnError(GruntParser.java:198) at org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.GruntParser.parseStopOnError(GruntParser.java:173) at org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.Grunt.exec(Grunt.java:84) at org.apache.pig.Main.run(Main.java:478) at org.apache.pig.Main.main(Main.java:156) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:94) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:55) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:619) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:212) ================================================================================ PIG VERSION tgzk9r9@wrnidvmedg001:/data/commonScripts/util/Omniture/pigscripts> pig -version Apache Pig version 0.12.0 (rexported) compiled Oct 26 2014, 23:43:04 Thanks, Kit
