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[jira] [Assigned] (SPARK-24540) Support for multiple character
delimiter in Spark CSV read
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-24540?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
Sean R. Owen reassigned SPARK-24540:
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Assignee: Jeff Evans
> Support for multiple character delimiter in Spark CSV read
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>
> Key: SPARK-24540
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-24540
> Project: Spark
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: SQL
> Affects Versions: 2.3.1
> Reporter: Ashwin K
> Assignee: Jeff Evans
> Priority: Major
>
> Currently, the delimiter option Spark 2.0 to read and split CSV files/data only support a single character delimiter. If we try to provide multiple delimiters, we observer the following error message.
> eg: Dataset<Row> df = spark.read().option("inferSchema", "true")
> .option("header", "false")
> .option("delimiter", ", ")
> .csv("C:\test.txt");
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Delimiter cannot be more than one character: ,
> at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.csv.CSVUtils$.toChar(CSVUtils.scala:111)
> at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.csv.CSVOptions.<init>(CSVOptions.scala:83)
> at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.csv.CSVOptions.<init>(CSVOptions.scala:39)
> at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.csv.CSVFileFormat.inferSchema(CSVFileFormat.scala:55)
> at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.DataSource$$anonfun$8.apply(DataSource.scala:202)
> at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.DataSource$$anonfun$8.apply(DataSource.scala:202)
> at scala.Option.orElse(Option.scala:289)
> at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.DataSource.getOrInferFileFormatSchema(DataSource.scala:201)
> at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.DataSource.resolveRelation(DataSource.scala:392)
> at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrameReader.loadV1Source(DataFrameReader.scala:239)
> at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrameReader.load(DataFrameReader.scala:227)
> at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrameReader.csv(DataFrameReader.scala:596)
> at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrameReader.csv(DataFrameReader.scala:473)
>
> Generally, the data to be processed contains multiple character delimiters and presently we need to do a manual data clean up on the source/input file, which doesn't work well in large applications which consumes numerous files.
> There seems to be work-around like reading data as text and using the split option, but this in my opinion defeats the purpose, advantage and efficiency of a direct read from CSV file.
>
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