This is exactly right. I had the regular dollar sign without escapes fail on me
when running as a script and decided to trouble shoot in grunt without
bothering to retry what I already knew didn't work. Really weird that grunt and
scripts behave differently, but your answer solves all the problems. Thanks for
the help!
Eli
On Jan 15, 2013, at 3:17 PM, Cheolsoo Park wrote:
> Hi Eli,
>
> I tried to reproduce your problem. What I found is that the behavior is
> different when using Grunt shell and running it as a script.
>
> * Input file *
>
> cheolsoo@localhost:~/workspace/pig-svn $cat 1.txt
> $id,a
>
> * Grunt shell *
>
> The $ with no backslash works:
>
> grunt> A = LOAD '1.txt' USING PigStorage(',') AS (k:chararray, v:chararray);
> grunt> B = FOREACH A GENERATE TOMAP(k, v) AS M;
> grunt> C = FOREACH B GENERATE M#'$id';
> grunt> DUMP C;
> (a)
>
> * Script *
>
> The $ with a single backslash works:
>
> cheolsoo@localhost:~/workspace/pig-svn $cat test.pig
> A = LOAD '1.txt' USING PigStorage(',') AS (k:chararray, v:chararray);
> B = FOREACH A GENERATE TOMAP(k, v) AS M;
> C = FOREACH B GENERATE M#'\$id';
> DUMP C;
>
> cheolsoo@localhost:~/workspace/pig-svn $./bin/pig -x local test.pig
> (a)
>
> Please let me know if you see different results.
>
> Thanks,
> Cheolsoo
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Eli Finkelshteyn
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Any other ideas? Still no solution on this.
>>
>> Eli
>>
>> On Jan 10, 2013, at 7:33 PM, Dmitriy Ryaboy wrote:
>>
>>> Two back slashes?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Eli Finkelshteyn <[email protected]
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> This wasn't a problem in 0.9.2, but in 0.10, when I try to access a key
>> in
>>>> a map that has a dollar sign in it, I get hammered with errors that I
>>>> haven't defined the variable. Specifically:
>>>>
>>>> blah = FOREACH meh GENERATE source, json_post_id#'$id' AS post_id;
>>>>
>>>> returns
>>>>
>>>> Undefined parameter : id
>>>>
>>>> That's fine and makes sense, but when I amend it to:
>>>>
>>>> blah = FOREACH meh GENERATE source, json_post_id#'\$id' AS post_id;
>>>>
>>>> I get:
>>>>
>>>> Unexpected character '$'
>>>>
>>>> Ideas?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> Eli
>>>>
>>
>>
