Pig and Parsing issue - apache-pig

Question

I am trying to figure out the best way to parse key value pair with Pig in a dataset with mixed delimiters as below
My sample dataset is in the format below
a|b|c|k1=v1 k2=v2 k3=v3
The final output which i require here is
k1,v1,k2,v2,k3,v3
I guess one way to do this is to
A = load 'sample' PigStorage('|') as (a1,b1,c1,d1);
B = foreach A generate d1;
and here i get (k1=v1 k2=v2 k3=v3) for B
Is there any way i can further parse this by "" so as to get 3 fields k1=v1,k2=v2 and K3=v3 which can then be further split into k1,v1,k2,v2,k3,v3 using Strsplit and Flatten on "=".
Thanks for the help!
San

Answer 1

If you know beforehand how many key=value pair are in each record, try this:
A = load 'sample' PigStorage('|') as (a1,b1,c1,d1);
B = foreach A generate d1;
C = FOREACH B GENERATE STRSPLIT($0,'=',6); -- 6= no. of key=value pairs
D = FOREACH C GENERATE FLATTEN($0);
DUMP D
output:
(k1,v1, k2,v2, k3,v3)
If you dont know the # of key=value pair, use ' ' as delimiter and remove the unwanted prefix from $0 column.
A = LOAD 'sample' USING PigStorage(' ') as (a:chararray,b:chararray,c:chararray);
B = FOREACH A GENERATE STRSPLIT(SUBSTRING(a, LAST_INDEX_OF(a,'|')+1, (int)SIZE(a)),'=',2),STRSPLIT(b,'=',2),STRSPLIT(c,'=',2);
C = FOREACH B GENERATE FLATTEN($0), FLATTEN($1), FLATTEN($2);
DUMP C;
output:
(k1,v1, k2,v2, k3,v3)