Hi Ron, You're right that assert is broken in 0.12.0. Here is the jira- https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-3670
The fix will be included in 0.12.1 and onwards. In the meantime, can you apply the patch and rebuild Pig? Thanks, Cheolsoo On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 4:11 AM, Ronald Green <green.ron...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > It seems like ASSERT doesn't really work in Pig 0.12. I get the following > message when I try to use ASSERT: > > [main] ERROR org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.Grunt - ERROR 1000: Error during > parsing. Encountered " <IDENTIFIER> "assert "" at line 1, column 1. > Was expecting one of: ... > > I also tried without the ASSERT keyword (simply A by a1>0 'message') but it > doesn't work as well. > > The versions I tested were 0.12.0 (r1529718) and Pig 0.12.0.2.0.6.1-101. > > Any idea? > > Thanks, > Ron >
