When passing a parameter to Pig, if the value contains $ it has to be escaped because of a bug in PrecprocessorContext ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: PIG-2074 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2074 Project: Pig Issue Type: Bug Components: impl Reporter: Julien Le Dem Priority: Minor This was raised while looking at PIG-1827 There seems to be a bug in PreprocessorContext: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/pig/trunk/src/org/apache/pig/tools/parameters/PreprocessorContext.java?view=markup {code} 235 //String litVal = Matcher.quoteReplacement(val); 236 replaced_line = replaced_line.replaceFirst("\\$"+key, val); {code} the replacement (2nd) parameter of replaceFirst is not a plain string, it can contain references to the matched pattern like "$0" so $ in val must be escaped. Does someone know why line 235 is commented out ? -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira