[CRUNCH-97] Add helpers for parsing PCollection<String> instances

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.5.0
• Component/s: Core
• Assignee: Josh Wills
• Reporter: Josh Wills
• Created: 16/Oct/12 03:45
• Updated: 22/Feb/13 06:57
• Resolved: 13/Dec/12 19:21

Description

We should make it a bit easier to parse delimited text files into specific data types (e.g., ints, floats, etc.) or combinations of types-- e.g., pairs of strings and ints, a Tuple3 of booleans, etc.