Alternatively you could write a simple script to convert the csv to a pipe 
delimited file so that "abc,def" will be abc,def.

On Jun 26, 2012, at 2:51 PM, Harsh J wrote:

> Hive's delimited-fields-format record reader does not handle quoted
> text that carry the same delimiter within them. Excel supports such
> records, so it reads it fine.
> 
> You will need to create your table with a custom InputFormat class
> that can handle this (Try using OpenCSV readers, they support this),
> instead of relying on Hive to do this for you. If you're successful in
> your approach, please also consider contributing something back to
> Hive/Pig to help others.
> 
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:37 AM, Sandeep Reddy P
> <sandeepreddy.3...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> I have a csv file with 46 columns but i'm getting error when i do some
>> analysis on that data type. For simplification i have taken 3 columns and
>> now my csv is like
>> c,zxy,xyz
>> d,"abc,def",abcd
>> 
>> i have created table for this data using,
>> hive> create table test3(
>>     > f1 string,
>>     > f2 string,
>>     > f3 string)
>>     > row format delimited
>>     > fields terminated by ",";
>> OK
>> Time taken: 0.143 seconds
>> hive> load data local inpath '/home/training/a.csv'
>>     > into table test3;
>> Copying data from file:/home/training/a.csv
>> Copying file: file:/home/training/a.csv
>> Loading data to table default.test3
>> OK
>> Time taken: 0.276 seconds
>> hive> select * from test3;
>> OK
>> c       zxy     xyz
>> d       "abc    def"
>> Time taken: 0.156 seconds
>> 
>> When i do select f2 from test3;
>> my results are,
>> OK
>> zxy
>> "abc
>> but this should be abc,def
>> When i open the same csv file with Microsoft Excel i got abc,def
>> How should i solve this error??
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Thanks,
>> sandeep
>> 
>> --
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Harsh J
> 

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