That said, if there are rules around alias names, then there should probably be an error thrown if a schema function outputs a bad variable name.
2012/2/21 Austin Chungath <[email protected]> > Thanks Prashant. > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Prashant Kommireddi > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Replacing space with underscore is a good option. Alias is like variable > > declaration in any language which are guided by certain rules and syntax. > > http://pig.apache.org/docs/r0.9.1/basic.html#Data+Types+and+More > > > > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Austin Chungath <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Consider > > > describe A; > > > A: {New York: chararray, Delhi: chararray} > > > > > > B = foreach a generate New York; > > > > > > error: > > > mismatched input 'York' expecting SEMI_COLON > > > > > > Is there an escape sequence for space in pig scripts? > > > I understand that it is not possible to create a column name with a > space > > > in pig using scripts. > > > The column name with a space was created when my UDF created a schema > > > taking values from a tuple and that tuple had this string "New York". > > > Ideally I should have checked for spaces in the string and replaced it > > with > > > an underscore, but just out of curiosity is there a way to address a > > column > > > named "New York"? > > > > > > Any help is much appreciated. > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Austin > > > > > >
