That's what I'm doing as of now. I was looking for some way to run an iterative loop over the REPLACE.
Thanks. On Mar 5, 2016 15:25, "Artem Ervits" <artemerv...@gmail.com> wrote: > You need to call replace on every field. > On Mar 5, 2016 4:01 PM, "Parth Sawant" <parth.sawan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi > > I'm trying to run Pig's REPLACE UDF over all the fields in every tuple > in a > > Pig relation. > > The REPLACE UDF does not however work with the * operator to run itself > > over the contents of each field in a tuple. > > For eg: > > > > SRC= LOAD 'input' using PigStorage('\\u001') as > > (col1:chararray,col2:chararray,col3:chararray,col4:chararray); > > > > REP=FOREACH SRC GENERATE REPLACE(col1,'str1','str2'); > > > > I want to iterate this same replace function over all the columns in a > > tuple. > > > > Any help appreciated. > > > > Thanks > > Parth S > > >