If you pass '10/24/2010' instead of 10/24/2010 (that is, with single
quotes), I think it will work. You'll have to be careful to actually
get the single quotes through your shell, which will try to eat them.
Alan.
On Feb 13, 2011, at 12:29 PM, Arun A K wrote:
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
---------------
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
