Hey Kim,

You can use the Flatten operator.  They don't necessarily stay tuples, but you 
probably don't need them to.

http://pig.apache.org/docs/r0.7.0/piglatin_ref2.html#Example:+Flattening

On Oct 14, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Kim Vogt wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> If I have bags that have a dynamic number of fields that look something like
> this:
> 
> ("park", "building", "office")
> ("store", "school")
> ("building", "school", "restaurant", "hotel)
> 
> Is it possible to transform this into one tuple per bag so my data looks
> like this and then I can do group bys and counts?  Maybe I can do this in an
> eval udf?
> 
> ("park")
> ("building")
> ("office")
> ("store")
> ...
> 
> 
> -Kim

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