> Did you try to escape the backslash? I just tried this:
POSA = FOREACH TEST GENERATE STRSPLIT(startpos,'\\u002F'); ... and still the same result. By the way I'm using a forward slash for the separator character. I also tried this: POSA = FOREACH TEST GENERATE STRSPLIT(startpos,'/',-1); ... and still getting null rows. If you look at my original post you'll see that the data contained in POSA and POSB should be identical. There's something that's getting screwy during the processing stage, where processing functions are "concatenated" together. If I save the output from each step to a file and load it back in, things work fine. I demonstrated this in my original post. Very strange, but I really need to get this resolved.
