[PIG-2504] Incorrect sample provided for REGEX_EXTRACT

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.9.1
• Fix Version/s: 0.11
• Component/s: documentation
• Patch Info: Patch Available
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Prashant Kommireddi
• Reporter: Vivek Padmanabhan
• Created: 03/Feb/12 16:21
• Updated: 22/Feb/13 04:53
• Resolved: 03/Feb/12 21:45

Description

The sample provided for REGEX_EXTRACT is not working
http://pig.apache.org/docs/r0.9.2/func.html#regex-extract

a = load 'i1';
b = foreach a generate REGEX_EXTRACT('192.168.1.5:8020', '(.):(.)', 1);
dump b;
The script will fail with the below error;

ERROR org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.Grunt - ERROR 1200: <file test.pig, line 2, column 63> Unexpected character ':'