[jira] [Assigned] (PIG-2905) Improve documentation around REPLACE

["Cheolsoo Park (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2905?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Cheolsoo Park reassigned PIG-2905:
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    Assignee: Cheolsoo Park
    
> Improve documentation around REPLACE
> ------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PIG-2905
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2905
>             Project: Pig
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>            Reporter: Bill Graham
>            Assignee: Cheolsoo Park
>
> Document how REPLACE uses a Java regex and link out to JDK docs describing reserved characters and escaping. From recent confusion on the users list:
> {noformat}
> > String source = "[02/Aug/2012:05:01:17";
> > > String target ="[";
> > > String replaceWith = "";
> > > return source.replaceAll(source, target, replaceWith);
> > Note that Java String.replaceAll() takes a regular expression for the 2nd
> > parameter (i.e. target), and "[" is a special character. To use it as is,
> > you have to escape it, so in your Pig script, you should do:
> > REPLACE(date,'\\[','')
> {noformat} 

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