Can I split a command over multiple lines in Apache Pig Latin?

Question

I have some very long lines as Apache Pig (Latin) expressions. Is there a way of splitting these over multiple lines?

I've tried a trailing backslash to no avail, as soon as I press enter the (incomplete) command executes...

Bukharin

Answer 1

I'm writing at a Pig 0.8 grunt shell and I just hit return and it gives me a continuation prompt ">>". It doesn't appear to have any problem splitting individual statements over multiple lines in interactive mode, which is what it sounded like you were asking about. You can also feed a script with multiline statements to Pig via STDIN.

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Answer 2

I can't test it right now, but if memory serves me well, the underscore character "_" should help you splitting your command over multiple lines.

The beginning of my very very very very _
very very very very very very very very _
very very very long command

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I tried it and in interactive mode it doesn't work. Perhaps it might work for scripts? – Bukharin

It's possible that there is no answer; maybe interactive mode doesn't support any line extension character. – Bukharin

just checked that this is not working for v0.15.0 – Awn