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Benjamin Reed commented on PIG-123:
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> cannot escape single quotes in single quoted strings when using the eq or
> match operator
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>
> Key: PIG-123
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-123
> Project: Pig
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: andrei badulescu
> Attachments: PIG-123_escape_char.patch, pig_escape_patch1.patch
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> a query like this :
> filter c by ( c.string eq 'hell\'s angels' OR c.string eq 'blue\'s clues')
> generates an error with the pig parser, because the parser does not allow
> single quotes (') within single quotes, even if they are escaped with a
> backslash.
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