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Created August 24, 2011 22:10
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How Pig treats semicolons in variable declarations
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pig_default_semicolons.sh
# Pay attention to where you put your semicolons lest they become part of the value!
cat tmp/default.pig
%default QUOTED '20090101';
%default UNQUOTED $QUOTED;
l = load '/logs/$QUOTED';
l = load '/logs/$UNQUOTED';
pig -x local -r tmp/default.pig
2011-08-24 21:57:05,531 [main] INFO org.apache.pig.Main - Dry run completed. Substituted pig script is at tmp/default.pig.substituted
cat tmp/default.pig.substituted
;
l = load '/logs/20090101';
l = load '/logs/20090101;';
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