Hi
I am passing a parameter to my Pig script. Its value is a date string in the
form of MM/DD/YYYY. I am trying to have this parameter's value as an
additional column to the final output of the script. The script throws an
error as it treats the forward slash as division operator. I tried escaping
the forward slash with a back slash but the error persists.
An example to illustrate my case:
The dateString parameter's value is escaped using back slashes.
dateString=10\/24\/2010
Call to my Pig script from a Shell wrapper:
pig -Dmapred.job.queue.name=${QUEUE} -f ./test.pig -param
dateString="${dateString}"
Error message:
Pig Stack Trace
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ERROR 1039: In alias outputValue, incompatible types in Division Operator
left hand side:chararray right hand side:int
Any thoughts on how to get it right? Thanks a bunch.
Regards
Arun
