Following java regex, a . needs to be \\. The other two are fine.
2011/2/22 Sanjeev Shrivastava <[email protected]>
> Hi
> I am trying to use REPLACE function in PIG to clean the string in
> following way..
>
> REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE('string','.',' '),'-',' '),' ',' ')
>
> So if string has got . or - or spaces , it removes it...
>
> However when I do it using PIG it makes the string as null and does not
> give me result(because of special character?)
>
>
> Any suggestions from brains out there?
>
> Thanks
> Sanjeev
>
