Assuming you are using a textfileoutputformat:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11031785/hadoop-key-and-value-are-tab-separated-in-the-output-file-how-to-do-it-semicol So something like: conf.set("mapred.textoutputformat.separator", ":"); conf.set("mapreduce.textoutputformat.separator", ":"); Depending on the version being run. I hope this helps, Tim On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Pedro Sá da Costa <psdc1...@gmail.com>wrote: > the "output.collect(key, value)" puts the key and the value separated by > \t. Is there a way to replace it by ':'? > > -- > Best regards, >