Better late then never: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2464
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Thejas Nair <[email protected]>wrote: > That looks like a bug. Can you please open a jira ? > Thanks, > Thejas > > > On 10/18/11 4:52 PM, Alex Rovner wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I am using pig through the pig server. I need to pass some parameters to >> the >> pig script which I am passing by calling the >> pigServer.registerScript(**pigScript, params); >> >> If my parameters have dashes in them, pig fails with the following >> (Parameter used here is run-date=20110531 where "run-date" is the key and >> 20110531 is the value): >> >> 11/10/18 19:44:57 ERROR pig.PigServer: Encountered "<OTHER> >> "-date=20110531 >> "" at line 1, column 6. >> Was expecting: >> "=" ... >> >> Are dashes not allowed in keys of parameters? >> >> Thanks >> Alex R >> >> >
