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

["Ian Holsman (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Ian Holsman commented on PIG-474:
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Hi Earl.
just a quick note to say that this works like a dream for me.

THANKS!

> from pig latin, be able to load a file based on a supplied regular expression
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PIG-474
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-474
>             Project: Pig
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: Earl Cahill
>         Attachments: MyRegExLoader-PIG-474
>
>
> 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"}

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