Your start rowkey is the prefix it self. Your end row key is the prefix +1. Increase the last byte by 1. I can send you the increase function if you need. No filter needed.
On Wednesday, January 15, 2014, Ramon Wang <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Folks > > We have a table with fixed pattern row key design, the format for the row > key is YEAR_COUNTRY_randomNumber, for example: > > 20140101_EN_1 > 20140101_EN_2 > 20140101_EN_3 > 20140101_US_1 > 20140101_US_2 > 20140101_US_3 > ... > > Is there a way i can quickly get the data for "20140101_EN_*" by using Scan > without scan the full table? I think we are probably going to use > the PrefixFilter filter with the Scan object, but the problem is that we > don't know the "startRow" for each scan, any ideas? > > Thanks > Ramon >
