Janick Bernet created HIVE-13482: ------------------------------------ Summary: str_to_map function delimiters are regex Key: HIVE-13482 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-13482 Project: Hive Issue Type: Improvement Components: UDF Affects Versions: 1.0.0 Reporter: Janick Bernet Assignee: Jason Dere Priority: Minor
The two delimiters passed to the 'str_to_map' function are both interpreted as regular expressions, which means that using the pipe ('|') as a delimiter will lead to very unexpected results. This behaviour is the same for the closely related 'split' function, however that is clearly documented in the function description (as per https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+UDF). Either the documentation for 'str_to_map' should be updated to reflect that the delimiters are both regular expressions, too, or the implementation should be changed to not interpret them as regexes. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)