Hi y'all,
First time on this list, and hoping you might be able to help me with a
(possible) issue.
I'm working with some data in Pig that includes strings of interest,
optionally separated by semicolons and in random order, e.g.
test=12345;foo=bar
test=12345
foo=bar;test=12345
The following code should extract the value of the string for the test
'key':
blah =
FOREACH
data
GENERATE
FLATTEN (
EXTRACT (
str_of_interest,
'test=(\\S+);?'
)
)
AS (
test: chararray
)
;
However, when running the code, I encounter the following error:
<line 46, column 0> mismatched character '<EOF>' expecting '''
2013-04-16 04:46:05,245 [main] ERROR org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.Grunt -
ERROR 1200: <line 46, column 0> mismatched character '<EOF>' expecting '''
I thought I had my regex escape syntax off at first, but that doesn't
appear to be the problem. The only information I get from a Google search
is a bug report (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2507) that
appears to have been recently fixed, but it's still an issue on the Amazon
EMR cluster I'm running (spun up ad hoc, just now, for this analysis).
As in the bug report and as suggested elsewhere, replacing the semicolon
with its Unicode equivalent (\u003B) yields the same error.
I could be crazy and this could be a syntax issue, so I'm hoping someone
might be able to point me in the right direction or confirm that this is an
existing problem. If the latter, are there any workarounds (either in Pig,
or for matching the string I want)?
Cheers.
Dylan
