Alicia Alvarez created DRILL-4607: ------------------------------------- Summary: Add a split function that allows to separate string by a delimiter Key: DRILL-4607 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-4607 Project: Apache Drill Issue Type: New Feature Components: Functions - Drill Affects Versions: 1.6.0 Reporter: Alicia Alvarez
Ex: Let's say I have records in a CSV file with the following schema {noformat} user_name, friend_list_separated_by_a_delimiter,other_fields ali,sam;adi;tom,45,... {noformat} I want to run a query which returns the friend list files as a repeated value. {noformat} select user_name, split(friend_list, ';') friends from userdata; {noformat} This should return the records in the following format {noformat} --------------------------------- | user_name | friends | --------------------------------- | ali | [sam, adi, tom] | --------------------------------- {noformat} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)