[PIG-474] from pig latin, be able to load a file based on a supplied regular expression

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.2.0
• Patch Info: Patch Available
• Assignee: Earl Cahill
• Reporter: Earl Cahill
• Created: 07/Oct/08 05:34
• Updated: 02/May/13 02:29
• Resolved: 09/Oct/08 17:44

Description

Want to be able to do something like

A = LOAD 'file:test.txt' USING org.apache.pig.piggybank.storage.MyRegExLoader('(\\d+)!(\\w)~(
w)');

which would parse lines like

1!!!one~i
2!!two~~ii
3!three~~~iii

into arrays like

{1, "one", "i"}

,

{2, "two", "ii"}

,

{3, "three", "iii"}

Issue Links

• depends upon: PIG-472 load files based on user provided regular expressions