strsplit issue - Pig

Question

I have following tuple H1 and I want to strsplit its $0 into tuple.However I always get an error message:

DUMP H1:
(item32;item31;,1)

m = FOREACH H1 GENERATE S         


        

Answer 1

STRSPLIT on a semi-colon is tricky. I got it to work by putting it inside of a block.

raw = LOAD 'cname.txt' as (name,cname_string:chararray);

xx = FOREACH raw {
  cname_split = STRSPLIT(cname_string,';');
  GENERATE cname_split;
}

Funny enough, this is how I originally implemented my STRSPLIT() command. Only after trying to get it to split on a semicolon did I run into the same issue.