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[jira] [Commented] (DATAFU-69) Create SelectFieldByName UDF - which, given a field who's value contains a field name, and *, returns the value of the field referenced by the field name

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Matthew Hayes commented on DATAFU-69:
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+1

I went ahead and committed this.

> Create SelectFieldByName UDF - which, given a field who's value contains a field name, and *, returns the value of the field referenced by the field name
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: DATAFU-69
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DATAFU-69
>             Project: DataFu
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 1.3.0
>            Reporter: Russell Jurney
>              Labels: features
>             Fix For: 1.3.0
>
>         Attachments: DATAFU-69.patch, DATAFU-69.patch, DATAFU-69.patch, DATAFU-69.patch
>
>
> define SelectFieldByName datafu.pig.util.SelectFieldByName();
> data = LOAD 'input' using PigStorage(',') AS (fieldName:chararray, text1:chararray, text2:chararray, text3:chararray);
> data2 = FOREACH data GENERATE fieldName, SelectFieldByName(fieldName,*) as result;
> data3 = FOREACH data2 GENERATE fieldName, result;
> STORE data3 INTO 'output';



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