Hi Hemanth, Thank you for your valuable reply.
Regards, Anit On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Hemanth Yamijala <yhema...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I found this while trying to see if such a FileFormat or Split already exists: > http://bitsofinfo.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/reading-fixed-length-width-input-record-reader-with-hadoop-mapreduce/ > > I have certainly not tried it myself, hence can't say if it is > current, etc. But maybe it'll help you in some way. > > Thanks > Hemanth > > On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Anit Alexander <anitama...@gmail.com> wrote: >> hello user, >> >> I am trying to create a map reduce program which will have splits >> based on a specific length. The content has to be extracted in a way >> such that the newline(\n) or tab(\t) etc characters will be considered >> as a byte and not as a mapper instance. is this possible through >> custom input? if yes, how will i create a custom file split based on a >> specific length value. Any suggestions? >> >> Regards, >> Anit