[PIG-5214] search any substring in the input string

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.17.0
• Component/s: internal-udfs
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Yuxiang Wang
• Reporter: Yuxiang Wang
• Created: 05/Apr/17 06:40
• Updated: 21/Jun/17 09:15
• Resolved: 12/Apr/17 17:04

Description

A new Pig UDF STRING_SEARCH_ALL that Implementing regex for searching keyword(substring) in a line of string, and all matched substrings will be stored as individual tuples in a bag, i.e.

 output: ({(a),(b),(c)})

Help us to find all regex matches, for example, we may use FLATTEN(STRING_SEARCH_ALL(string, regex)) to list all matches for an easier view of output.

Issue Links

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