Please forgive my ignorance, but is there a comment character in Pig
scripts? It occurs to me I've never seen an example with a comment in it,
and leading # or ; characters don't appear to work as comment characters.

thanks!

Use double dash in the beginning of the line.
--a = load '1.txt'

Daniel

James Kebinger wrote:
> Please forgive my ignorance, but is there a comment character in Pig
> scripts? It occurs to me I've never seen an example with a comment in it,
> and leading # or ; characters don't appear to work as comment characters.
>
> thanks!
>

terrific. I should have tried that next. thanks!

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Jianyong Dai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Use double dash in the beginning of the line.
> --a = load '1.txt'
>
> Daniel
>
>
> James Kebinger wrote:
>
>> Please forgive my ignorance, but is there a comment character in Pig
>> scripts? It occurs to me I've never seen an example with a comment in it,
>> and leading # or ; characters don't appear to work as comment characters.
>>
>> thanks!
>>
>>
>
>

"--" for single line comment
and "/*  */ for multiple line comments
Jeff Zhang

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:09 PM, James Kebinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> terrific. I should have tried that next. thanks!
>
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Jianyong Dai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > Use double dash in the beginning of the line.
> > --a = load '1.txt'
> >
> > Daniel
> >
> >
> > James Kebinger wrote:
> >
> >> Please forgive my ignorance, but is there a comment character in Pig
> >> scripts? It occurs to me I've never seen an example with a comment in
> it,
> >> and leading # or ; characters don't appear to work as comment
> characters.
> >>
> >> thanks!
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>