this same behavior seen in pig 0.15 also .. could not get any workaround ..
*Cheers !!*
Arvind
On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 12:17 AM, Christopher Maier <
christopher.ma...@gm.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I haven't received any response on this, is there a known answer available?
>
> Thanks,
> Kit
>
> From: Christopher Maier
> Sent: Friday, October 23, 2015 11:39 AM
> To: 'user@pig.apache.org' <user@pig.apache.org>
> Cc: Arnaud Balat <arnaud.ba...@gm.com>
> Subject: Backslash at end of string literal
>
> Hi,
>
> Pig seems not to handle backslashes at the end of string literals
> properly. I've tried several variations and haven't gotten it to work.
> Backslashes inside of string literals still work fine. Can someone confirm
> this, or what the correct syntax would be for a string literal ending in a
> backslash?
>
> SCRIPT
>
> tgzk9r9@wrnidvmedg001:/data/commonScripts/util/Omniture/pigscripts> cat
> test2.pig
> a = load 'test1.txt' using PigStorage(',') as
> (A:chararray,B:chararray,C:chararray);
> dump a;
> b = foreach a generate 'abcd\\\\abcd';
> dump b;
> c = foreach a generate 'abcd\\\\';
> dump c;
>
> ERROR
>
> tgzk9r9@wrnidvmedg001:/data/commonScripts/util/Omniture/pigscripts> pig
> -f test2.pig
> INFO [JobControl] org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.FileInputFormat
> - Total input paths to process : 1
> INFO [main] org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.FileInputFormat -
> Total input paths to process : 1
> (a,b,c)
> INFO [JobControl] org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.FileInputFormat
> - Total input paths to process : 1
> INFO [main] org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.FileInputFormat -
> Total input paths to process : 1
> (abcd\\abcd)
> ERROR [main] org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.Grunt - ERROR 1000: Error
> during parsing. Lexical error at line 7, column 0. Encountered: <EOF>
> after : ""
> Details at logfile:
> /data/commonScripts/util/Omniture/pigscripts/pig_1445618087248.log
>
> STACK TRACE
>
> tgzk9r9@wrnidvmedg001:/data/commonScripts/util/Omniture/pigscripts> cat
> /data/commonScripts/util/Omniture/pigscripts/pig_1445618087248.log
> Pig Stack Trace
> ---------------
> ERROR 1000: Error during parsing. Lexical error at line 7, column 0.
> Encountered: <EOF> after : ""
>
> org.apache.pig.tools.pigscript.parser.TokenMgrError: Lexical error at line
> 7, column 0. Encountered: <EOF> after : ""
> at
> org.apache.pig.tools.pigscript.parser.PigScriptParserTokenManager.getNextToken(PigScriptParserTokenManager.java:3318)
> at
> org.apache.pig.tools.pigscript.parser.PigScriptParser.jj_ntk(PigScriptParser.java:1379)
> at
> org.apache.pig.tools.pigscript.parser.PigScriptParser.parse(PigScriptParser.java:106)
> at
> org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.GruntParser.parseStopOnError(GruntParser.java:198)
> at
> org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.GruntParser.parseStopOnError(GruntParser.java:173)
> at org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.Grunt.exec(Grunt.java:84)
> at org.apache.pig.Main.run(Main.java:478)
> at org.apache.pig.Main.main(Main.java:156)
> at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
> at
> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:94)
> at
> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:55)
> at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:619)
> at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:212)
>
> ================================================================================
>
> PIG VERSION
>
> tgzk9r9@wrnidvmedg001:/data/commonScripts/util/Omniture/pigscripts> pig
> -version
> Apache Pig version 0.12.0 (rexported)
> compiled Oct 26 2014, 23:43:04
>
> Thanks,
> Kit
>
>
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