Yes I did that as well but no joy. My shell does it for windows files 
automatically

 

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Subject: Re: Checking for null values when mapping

 

Also, have you looked into Dos2Unix (http://dos2unix.sourceforge.net/)

 

Has helped me in the past to deal with special characters while using windows 
based CSV’s in Linux. (Might not be the solution here.. Just an FYI :))

 

On Feb 20, 2016, at 2:17 PM, Chandeep Singh <c...@chandeep.com 
<mailto:c...@chandeep.com> > wrote:

 

Understood. In that case Ted’s suggestion to check the length should solve the 
problem.

 

On Feb 20, 2016, at 2:09 PM, Mich Talebzadeh <m...@peridale.co.uk 
<mailto:m...@peridale.co.uk> > wrote:

 

Hi,

 

That is a good question.

 

When data is exported from CSV to Linux, any character that cannot be 
transformed is replaced by ?. That question mark is not actually the expected 
“?” :)

 

So the only way I can get rid of it is by drooping the first character using 
substring(1). I checked I did the same in Hive sql

 

The actual field in CSV is “£2,500.oo” that translates into “?2,500.00”

 

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Subject: Re: Checking for null values when mapping

 

Looks like you’re using substring just to get rid of the ‘?’. Why not use 
replace for that as well? And then you wouldn’t run into issues with index out 
of bound.

 

val a = "?1,187.50"  

val b = ""

 

println(a.substring(1).replace(",", "”))

—> 1187.50

 

println(a.replace("?", "").replace(",", "”))

—> 1187.50

 

println(b.replace("?", "").replace(",", "”))

—> No error / output since both ‘?' and ‘,' don’t exist.

 

 

On Feb 20, 2016, at 8:24 AM, Mich Talebzadeh < <mailto:m...@peridale.co.uk> 
m...@peridale.co.uk> wrote:

 

 

I have a DF like below reading a csv file

 

 

val df = 
HiveContext.read.format("com.databricks.spark.csv").option("inferSchema", 
"true").option("header", "true").load("/data/stg/table2")

 

val a = df.map(x => (x.getString(0), x.getString(1), 
x.getString(2).substring(1).replace(",", 
"").toDouble,x.getString(3).substring(1).replace(",", "").toDouble, 
x.getString(4).substring(1).replace(",", "").toDouble))

 

 

For most rows I am reading from csv file the above mapping works fine. However, 
at the bottom of csv there are couple of empty columns as below

 

[421,02/10/2015,?1,187.50,?237.50,?1,425.00]

[,,,,]

[Net income,,?182,531.25,?14,606.25,?197,137.50]

[,,,,]

[year 2014,,?113,500.00,?0.00,?113,500.00]

[Year 2015,,?69,031.25,?14,606.25,?83,637.50]

 

However, I get 

 

a.collect.foreach(println)

16/02/20 08:31:53 ERROR Executor: Exception in task 0.0 in stage 123.0 (TID 161)

java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1

 

I suspect the cause is substring operation  say x.getString(2).substring(1) on 
empty values that according to web will throw this type of error

 

 

The easiest solution seems to be to check whether x above is not null and do 
the substring operation. Can this be done without using a UDF?

 

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