Possible to do conditional and more than one generate inside a foreach?

for example, I have tuples like this (names, days_ago)

(a,0)
(b,1)
(c,9)
(d,40)

b shows up 1 day ago, so it belongs to all of the following: yesterday, last
week, last month, and last quarter. So I'd like to turn the above to:

(a,0,today)
(b,1,yesterday)
(b,1,week)
(b,1,month)
(b,1,quarter)
(c,9,month)
(c,9,quarter)
(d,40,quarter)

I imagine/dream I could do something like this

B = FOREACH A
  {
        if (days_ago <= 90) generate name,days_ago,'quarter';
        if (days_ago <= 30) generate name,days_ago,'month';
        if (days_ago <= 7)   generate name,days_ago,'week';
        if (days_ago == 1)   generate name,days_ago,'yesterday';
        if (days_ago == 0)   generate name,days_ago,'today';
  }

of course that's not valid syntax. I could write my own UDF but would be
nice there's some way to get what I want without UDF.

Thanks!
Dexin

Hi Dexin,
This is the sort of thing I've started using Python UDFs for. See:
http://wiki.apache.org/pig/UDFsUsingScriptingLanguages for examples of
how to write the python code.

If your udf was implemented in Python you could then do this...

register 'udfs.py' using jython as udf;
...
B = FOREACH A generate name, udf.daysAgoString(days_ago);

scott.

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Dexin Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Possible to do conditional and more than one generate inside a foreach?
>
> for example, I have tuples like this (names, days_ago)
>
> (a,0)
> (b,1)
> (c,9)
> (d,40)
>
> b shows up 1 day ago, so it belongs to all of the following: yesterday, last
> week, last month, and last quarter. So I'd like to turn the above to:
>
> (a,0,today)
> (b,1,yesterday)
> (b,1,week)
> (b,1,month)
> (b,1,quarter)
> (c,9,month)
> (c,9,quarter)
> (d,40,quarter)
>
> I imagine/dream I could do something like this
>
> B = FOREACH A
>  {
>        if (days_ago <= 90) generate name,days_ago,'quarter';
>        if (days_ago <= 30) generate name,days_ago,'month';
>        if (days_ago <= 7)   generate name,days_ago,'week';
>        if (days_ago == 1)   generate name,days_ago,'yesterday';
>        if (days_ago == 0)   generate name,days_ago,'today';
>  }
>
> of course that's not valid syntax. I could write my own UDF but would be
> nice there's some way to get what I want without UDF.
>
> Thanks!
> Dexin
>

Thanks. I'm not familiar with python, but I write bunch of UDFs in java.

One question though, how do I pass the the entire tuple to the UDF, I mean I
can't do something like this:

    B = FOREACH A GENERATE myudf(A)

Essentially what I want is given a tuple, I want to enrich the tuple to add
one more field to it, and the value of the new field depends on the value in
some existing fields in the tuple.

(a,1) -> (a,1,yesterday)

how would I do that?

I imagine I can do
   B = GROUP A BY random;
   C = FOREACH B GENERATE myudf(A);

But I really don't like adding another GROUP BY here.

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Scott Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> Hi Dexin,
> This is the sort of thing I've started using Python UDFs for. See:
> http://wiki.apache.org/pig/UDFsUsingScriptingLanguages for examples of
> how to write the python code.
>
> If your udf was implemented in Python you could then do this...
>
> register 'udfs.py' using jython as udf;
> ...
> B = FOREACH A generate name, udf.daysAgoString(days_ago);
>
> scott.
>
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Dexin Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Possible to do conditional and more than one generate inside a foreach?
> >
> > for example, I have tuples like this (names, days_ago)
> >
> > (a,0)
> > (b,1)
> > (c,9)
> > (d,40)
> >
> > b shows up 1 day ago, so it belongs to all of the following: yesterday,
> last
> > week, last month, and last quarter. So I'd like to turn the above to:
> >
> > (a,0,today)
> > (b,1,yesterday)
> > (b,1,week)
> > (b,1,month)
> > (b,1,quarter)
> > (c,9,month)
> > (c,9,quarter)
> > (d,40,quarter)
> >
> > I imagine/dream I could do something like this
> >
> > B = FOREACH A
> >  {
> >        if (days_ago <= 90) generate name,days_ago,'quarter';
> >        if (days_ago <= 30) generate name,days_ago,'month';
> >        if (days_ago <= 7)   generate name,days_ago,'week';
> >        if (days_ago == 1)   generate name,days_ago,'yesterday';
> >        if (days_ago == 0)   generate name,days_ago,'today';
> >  }
> >
> > of course that's not valid syntax. I could write my own UDF but would be
> > nice there's some way to get what I want without UDF.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Dexin
> >
>

Dexin,

After re-reading your original post, I better understand what you were
asking and I see that I didn't really answer your question.

Python UDFs do make writing UDFs much simpler so you might be more
likely to actually use them.

If you know Java, Python shouldn't be difficult to pick up.

Though not having done it myself, I would say that you should be able
to pass the tuple to the UDF. I see in the source for the
ScriptingEngine that a Pig tuple is converted into a Python tuple so
you should be able access any element of the Pig tuple in the Python
UDF.

I noticed this comment in the Python UDF manual though @
http://pig.apache.org/docs/r0.8.1/udf.html#Python+UDFs
# tuple in python are immutable, appending to a tuple is not possible.

The immutable comment is important, you won't be able to enrich the
tuple but you can copy the values into a new tuple and return that.

All that being said, here is one possible approach to the original
problem that produces

(a,0,(quarter,month,week,,today))
(b,1,(quarter,month,week,yesterday,))
(c,9,(quarter,month,,,))
(d,40,(quarter,,,,))

for your input data.

C = FOREACH B GENERATE names, days_ago, udfs.myudf(names, days_ago);

and the python UDF (in another file):

@outputSchema("timeperiods:tuple(quarter:chararray,month:chararray,week:chararray,yesterday:chararray,today:chararray)")
def timePeriods(names, days_ago):
    periods = []
    if days_ago <= 90:
        periods.append('quarter')
    else:
        periods.append(None)
    if days_ago <= 30:
        periods.append('month')
    else:
        periods.append(None)
    if days_ago <= 7:
        periods.append('week')
    else:
        periods.append(None)
    if days_ago == 1:
        periods.append('yesterday')
    else:
        periods.append(None)
    if days_ago == 0:
        periods.append('today')
    else:
        periods.append(None)
    return tuple(periods)

It's not exactly what you wanted but maybe it will suggest a proper solution.

scott.

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Dexin Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks. I'm not familiar with python, but I write bunch of UDFs in java.
>
> One question though, how do I pass the the entire tuple to the UDF, I mean I
> can't do something like this:
>
>    B = FOREACH A GENERATE myudf(A)
>
> Essentially what I want is given a tuple, I want to enrich the tuple to add
> one more field to it, and the value of the new field depends on the value in
> some existing fields in the tuple.
>
> (a,1) -> (a,1,yesterday)
>
> how would I do that?
>
> I imagine I can do
>   B = GROUP A BY random;
>   C = FOREACH B GENERATE myudf(A);
>
> But I really don't like adding another GROUP BY here.
>
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Scott Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
>> Hi Dexin,
>> This is the sort of thing I've started using Python UDFs for. See:
>> http://wiki.apache.org/pig/UDFsUsingScriptingLanguages for examples of
>> how to write the python code.
>>
>> If your udf was implemented in Python you could then do this...
>>
>> register 'udfs.py' using jython as udf;
>> ...
>> B = FOREACH A generate name, udf.daysAgoString(days_ago);
>>
>> scott.
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Dexin Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Possible to do conditional and more than one generate inside a foreach?
>> >
>> > for example, I have tuples like this (names, days_ago)
>> >
>> > (a,0)
>> > (b,1)
>> > (c,9)
>> > (d,40)
>> >
>> > b shows up 1 day ago, so it belongs to all of the following: yesterday,
>> last
>> > week, last month, and last quarter. So I'd like to turn the above to:
>> >
>> > (a,0,today)
>> > (b,1,yesterday)
>> > (b,1,week)
>> > (b,1,month)
>> > (b,1,quarter)
>> > (c,9,month)
>> > (c,9,quarter)
>> > (d,40,quarter)
>> >
>> > I imagine/dream I could do something like this
>> >
>> > B = FOREACH A
>> >  {
>> >        if (days_ago <= 90) generate name,days_ago,'quarter';
>> >        if (days_ago <= 30) generate name,days_ago,'month';
>> >        if (days_ago <= 7)   generate name,days_ago,'week';

I see 3 independent questions :

  1. How can we pass entire row tuple to an UDF as 'B = FOREACH A GENERATE
myudf(A)', without knowing schema? I don't know if that is passible. It does
feel like it should be possible.

  2. How can I return an augmented Tuple? Your UDF can make a copy of the
input tuple and add whatever you like to and return it.. may be your
question is not this simple.

  3. How can I make UDF result in multiple row for for input row  as in your
example:
       - your UDF needs to return bag of row tuples. For (b,1) it would
return {(b,1,yesterday), (b,1,week), ... }
       - your pig script would flatten the output of the UDF :
         B = foreach A generate FLATTEN( myUDF(name, days_ago) );

Raghu.

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Dexin Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Thanks. I'm not familiar with python, but I write bunch of UDFs in java.
>
> One question though, how do I pass the the entire tuple to the UDF, I mean
> I
> can't do something like this:
>
>    B = FOREACH A GENERATE myudf(A)
>
> Essentially what I want is given a tuple, I want to enrich the tuple to add
> one more field to it, and the value of the new field depends on the value
> in
> some existing fields in the tuple.
>
> (a,1) -> (a,1,yesterday)
>
> how would I do that?
>
> I imagine I can do
>   B = GROUP A BY random;
>   C = FOREACH B GENERATE myudf(A);
>
> But I really don't like adding another GROUP BY here.
>
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Scott Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi Dexin,
> > This is the sort of thing I've started using Python UDFs for. See:
> > http://wiki.apache.org/pig/UDFsUsingScriptingLanguages for examples of
> > how to write the python code.
> >
> > If your udf was implemented in Python you could then do this...
> >
> > register 'udfs.py' using jython as udf;
> > ...
> > B = FOREACH A generate name, udf.daysAgoString(days_ago);
> >
> > scott.
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Dexin Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Possible to do conditional and more than one generate inside a foreach?
> > >
> > > for example, I have tuples like this (names, days_ago)
> > >
> > > (a,0)
> > > (b,1)
> > > (c,9)
> > > (d,40)
> > >
> > > b shows up 1 day ago, so it belongs to all of the following: yesterday,
> > last
> > > week, last month, and last quarter. So I'd like to turn the above to:
> > >
> > > (a,0,today)
> > > (b,1,yesterday)
> > > (b,1,week)
> > > (b,1,month)
> > > (b,1,quarter)
> > > (c,9,month)
> > > (c,9,quarter)
> > > (d,40,quarter)
> > >
> > > I imagine/dream I could do something like this
> > >
> > > B = FOREACH A
> > >  {
> > >        if (days_ago <= 90) generate name,days_ago,'quarter';
> > >        if (days_ago <= 30) generate name,days_ago,'month';
> > >        if (days_ago <= 7)   generate name,days_ago,'week';
> > >        if (days_ago == 1)   generate name,days_ago,'yesterday';
> > >        if (days_ago == 0)   generate name,days_ago,'today';
> > >  }
> > >
> > > of course that's not valid syntax. I could write my own UDF but would
> be
> > > nice there's some way to get what I want without UDF.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > Dexin
> > >
> >
>

maybe you can try something like this:

B = foreach A generate name,days_ago, FLATTEN(((days_ago =1)?{('yesterday','week','month','quarter')}:((...)?:));

Shawn

On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Raghu Angadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I see 3 independent questions :
>
>  1. How can we pass entire row tuple to an UDF as 'B = FOREACH A GENERATE
> myudf(A)', without knowing schema? I don't know if that is passible. It does
> feel like it should be possible.
>
>  2. How can I return an augmented Tuple? Your UDF can make a copy of the
> input tuple and add whatever you like to and return it.. may be your
> question is not this simple.
>
>  3. How can I make UDF result in multiple row for for input row  as in your
> example:
>       - your UDF needs to return bag of row tuples. For (b,1) it would
> return {(b,1,yesterday), (b,1,week), ... }
>       - your pig script would flatten the output of the UDF :
>         B = foreach A generate FLATTEN( myUDF(name, days_ago) );
>
> Raghu.
>
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Dexin Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Thanks. I'm not familiar with python, but I write bunch of UDFs in java.
>>
>> One question though, how do I pass the the entire tuple to the UDF, I mean
>> I
>> can't do something like this:
>>
>>    B = FOREACH A GENERATE myudf(A)
>>
>> Essentially what I want is given a tuple, I want to enrich the tuple to add
>> one more field to it, and the value of the new field depends on the value
>> in
>> some existing fields in the tuple.
>>
>> (a,1) -> (a,1,yesterday)
>>
>> how would I do that?
>>
>> I imagine I can do
>>   B = GROUP A BY random;
>>   C = FOREACH B GENERATE myudf(A);
>>
>> But I really don't like adding another GROUP BY here.
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Scott Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Dexin,
>> > This is the sort of thing I've started using Python UDFs for. See:
>> > http://wiki.apache.org/pig/UDFsUsingScriptingLanguages for examples of
>> > how to write the python code.
>> >
>> > If your udf was implemented in Python you could then do this...
>> >
>> > register 'udfs.py' using jython as udf;
>> > ...
>> > B = FOREACH A generate name, udf.daysAgoString(days_ago);
>> >
>> > scott.
>> >
>> > On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Dexin Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > > Possible to do conditional and more than one generate inside a foreach?
>> > >
>> > > for example, I have tuples like this (names, days_ago)
>> > >
>> > > (a,0)
>> > > (b,1)
>> > > (c,9)
>> > > (d,40)
>> > >
>> > > b shows up 1 day ago, so it belongs to all of the following: yesterday,
>> > last
>> > > week, last month, and last quarter. So I'd like to turn the above to:
>> > >
>> > > (a,0,today)
>> > > (b,1,yesterday)
>> > > (b,1,week)
>> > > (b,1,month)
>> > > (b,1,quarter)
>> > > (c,9,month)
>> > > (c,9,quarter)
>> > > (d,40,quarter)
>> > >
>> > > I imagine/dream I could do something like this
>> > >
>> > > B = FOREACH A
>> > >  {
>> > >        if (days_ago <= 90) generate name,days_ago,'quarter';
>> > >        if (days_ago <= 30) generate name,days_ago,'month';
>> > >        if (days_ago <= 7)   generate name,days_ago,'week';
>> > >        if (days_ago == 1)   generate name,days_ago,'yesterday';
>> > >        if (days_ago == 0)   generate name,days_ago,'today';
>> > >  }
>> > >
>> > > of course that's not valid syntax. I could write my own UDF but would
>> be
>> > > nice there's some way to get what I want without UDF.
>> > >
>> > > Thanks!
>> > > Dexin
>> > >
>> >
>>
>

no, you want a bag. should be this:

B = foreach A generate name,days_ago, FLATTEN(((days_ago => 1)?{('yesterday'),('week'),('month'),('quarter')}:((...)?:));

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Xiaomeng Wan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> maybe you can try something like this:
>
> B = foreach A generate name,days_ago, FLATTEN(((days_ago => 1)?{('yesterday','week','month','quarter')}:((...)?:));
>
> Shawn
>
> On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Raghu Angadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I see 3 independent questions :
>>
>>  1. How can we pass entire row tuple to an UDF as 'B = FOREACH A GENERATE
>> myudf(A)', without knowing schema? I don't know if that is passible. It does
>> feel like it should be possible.
>>
>>  2. How can I return an augmented Tuple? Your UDF can make a copy of the
>> input tuple and add whatever you like to and return it.. may be your
>> question is not this simple.
>>
>>  3. How can I make UDF result in multiple row for for input row  as in your
>> example:
>>       - your UDF needs to return bag of row tuples. For (b,1) it would
>> return {(b,1,yesterday), (b,1,week), ... }
>>       - your pig script would flatten the output of the UDF :
>>         B = foreach A generate FLATTEN( myUDF(name, days_ago) );
>>
>> Raghu.
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Dexin Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks. I'm not familiar with python, but I write bunch of UDFs in java.
>>>
>>> One question though, how do I pass the the entire tuple to the UDF, I mean
>>> I
>>> can't do something like this:
>>>
>>>    B = FOREACH A GENERATE myudf(A)
>>>
>>> Essentially what I want is given a tuple, I want to enrich the tuple to add
>>> one more field to it, and the value of the new field depends on the value
>>> in
>>> some existing fields in the tuple.
>>>
>>> (a,1) -> (a,1,yesterday)
>>>
>>> how would I do that?
>>>
>>> I imagine I can do
>>>   B = GROUP A BY random;
>>>   C = FOREACH B GENERATE myudf(A);
>>>
>>> But I really don't like adding another GROUP BY here.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Scott Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> >wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hi Dexin,
>>> > This is the sort of thing I've started using Python UDFs for. See:
>>> > http://wiki.apache.org/pig/UDFsUsingScriptingLanguages for examples of
>>> > how to write the python code.
>>> >
>>> > If your udf was implemented in Python you could then do this...
>>> >
>>> > register 'udfs.py' using jython as udf;
>>> > ...
>>> > B = FOREACH A generate name, udf.daysAgoString(days_ago);
>>> >
>>> > scott.
>>> >
>>> > On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Dexin Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> > > Possible to do conditional and more than one generate inside a foreach?
>>> > >
>>> > > for example, I have tuples like this (names, days_ago)
>>> > >
>>> > > (a,0)
>>> > > (b,1)
>>> > > (c,9)
>>> > > (d,40)
>>> > >
>>> > > b shows up 1 day ago, so it belongs to all of the following: yesterday,
>>> > last
>>> > > week, last month, and last quarter. So I'd like to turn the above to:
>>> > >
>>> > > (a,0,today)
>>> > > (b,1,yesterday)
>>> > > (b,1,week)
>>> > > (b,1,month)
>>> > > (b,1,quarter)
>>> > > (c,9,month)
>>> > > (c,9,quarter)
>>> > > (d,40,quarter)
>>> > >
>>> > > I imagine/dream I could do something like this
>>> > >
>>> > > B = FOREACH A
>>> > >  {
>>> > >        if (days_ago <= 90) generate name,days_ago,'quarter';
>>> > >        if (days_ago <= 30) generate name,days_ago,'month';
>>> > >        if (days_ago <= 7)   generate name,days_ago,'week';
>>> > >        if (days_ago == 1)   generate name,days_ago,'yesterday';
>>> > >        if (days_ago == 0)   generate name,days_ago,'today';
>>> > >  }
>>> > >
>>> > > of course that's not valid syntax. I could write my own UDF but would
>>> be
>>> > > nice there's some way to get what I want without UDF.
>>> > >
>>> > > Thanks!
>>> > > Dexin
>>> > >
>>> >
>>>
>>
>

wow, awesome, works great! Thanks Shawn!

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Xiaomeng Wan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> no, you want a bag. should be this:
>
> B = foreach A generate name,days_ago, FLATTEN(((days_ago => > 1)?{('yesterday'),('week'),('month'),('quarter')}:((...)?:));
>
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Xiaomeng Wan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > maybe you can try something like this:
> >
> > B = foreach A generate name,days_ago, FLATTEN(((days_ago => > 1)?{('yesterday','week','month','quarter')}:((...)?:));
> >
> > Shawn
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Raghu Angadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >> I see 3 independent questions :
> >>
> >>  1. How can we pass entire row tuple to an UDF as 'B = FOREACH A
> GENERATE
> >> myudf(A)', without knowing schema? I don't know if that is passible. It
> does
> >> feel like it should be possible.
> >>
> >>  2. How can I return an augmented Tuple? Your UDF can make a copy of the
> >> input tuple and add whatever you like to and return it.. may be your
> >> question is not this simple.
> >>
> >>  3. How can I make UDF result in multiple row for for input row  as in
> your
> >> example:
> >>       - your UDF needs to return bag of row tuples. For (b,1) it would
> >> return {(b,1,yesterday), (b,1,week), ... }
> >>       - your pig script would flatten the output of the UDF :
> >>         B = foreach A generate FLATTEN( myUDF(name, days_ago) );
> >>
> >> Raghu.
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Dexin Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Thanks. I'm not familiar with python, but I write bunch of UDFs in
> java.
> >>>
> >>> One question though, how do I pass the the entire tuple to the UDF, I
> mean
> >>> I
> >>> can't do something like this:
> >>>
> >>>    B = FOREACH A GENERATE myudf(A)
> >>>
> >>> Essentially what I want is given a tuple, I want to enrich the tuple to
> add
> >>> one more field to it, and the value of the new field depends on the
> value
> >>> in
> >>> some existing fields in the tuple.
> >>>
> >>> (a,1) -> (a,1,yesterday)
> >>>
> >>> how would I do that?
> >>>
> >>> I imagine I can do
> >>>   B = GROUP A BY random;
> >>>   C = FOREACH B GENERATE myudf(A);
> >>>
> >>> But I really don't like adding another GROUP BY here.
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Scott Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>> >wrote:
> >>>
> >>> > Hi Dexin,
> >>> > This is the sort of thing I've started using Python UDFs for. See:
> >>> > http://wiki.apache.org/pig/UDFsUsingScriptingLanguages for examples
> of
> >>> > how to write the python code.
> >>> >
> >>> > If your udf was implemented in Python you could then do this...
> >>> >
> >>> > register 'udfs.py' using jython as udf;
> >>> > ...
> >>> > B = FOREACH A generate name, udf.daysAgoString(days_ago);
> >>> >
> >>> > scott.
> >>> >
> >>> > On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Dexin Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >>> > > Possible to do conditional and more than one generate inside a
> foreach?
> >>> > >
> >>> > > for example, I have tuples like this (names, days_ago)
> >>> > >
> >>> > > (a,0)
> >>> > > (b,1)
> >>> > > (c,9)
> >>> > > (d,40)
> >>> > >
> >>> > > b shows up 1 day ago, so it belongs to all of the following:
> yesterday,
> >>> > last
> >>> > > week, last month, and last quarter. So I'd like to turn the above
> to:
> >>> > >
> >>> > > (a,0,today)
> >>> > > (b,1,yesterday)
> >>> > > (b,1,week)
> >>> > > (b,1,month)
> >>> > > (b,1,quarter)
> >>> > > (c,9,month)
> >>> > > (c,9,quarter)
> >>> > > (d,40,quarter)
> >>> > >
> >>> > > I imagine/dream I could do something like this
> >>> > >
> >>> > > B = FOREACH A
> >>> > >  {
> >>> > >        if (days_ago <= 90) generate name,days_ago,'quarter';
> >>> > >        if (days_ago <= 30) generate name,days_ago,'month';
> >>> > >        if (days_ago <= 7)   generate name,days_ago,'week';
> >>> > >        if (days_ago == 1)   generate name,days_ago,'yesterday';
> >>> > >        if (days_ago == 0)   generate name,days_ago,'today';
> >>> > >  }
> >>> > >