Hive uses Java's regex API. This tutorial provides an excellent introduction.
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/regex/ dean On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:46 PM, qiaoresearcher <qiaoresearc...@gmail.com>wrote: > Assume there are strings like > > 'afewexcvgregre&MovieTitle=321grgrdg&olfll3onsl' > > or > > '?MovieTitle=949303sjkskld&sososodn' > > > how to extract 'MovieTitle=321grgrdg' or 'MovieTitle=949303sjkskld' using > Hive reg expression functions > > > thanks > and happy holidays > > -- *Dean Wampler, Ph.D.* thinkbiganalytics.com +1-312-339-1330
