Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-hadoop-common-user-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-hadoop-common-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AE0019BE1 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2012 16:28:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 33794 invoked by uid 500); 7 Feb 2012 16:28:33 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-hadoop-common-user-archive@hadoop.apache.org Received: (qmail 33606 invoked by uid 500); 7 Feb 2012 16:28:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact common-user-help@hadoop.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list common-user@hadoop.apache.org Received: (qmail 33587 invoked by uid 99); 7 Feb 2012 16:28:32 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:28:32 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of harsh@cloudera.com designates 209.85.160.48 as permitted sender) Received: from [209.85.160.48] (HELO mail-pw0-f48.google.com) (209.85.160.48) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:28:27 +0000 Received: by pbcc11 with SMTP id c11so7626475pbc.35 for ; Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:28:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.68.233.74 with SMTP id tu10mr34429333pbc.98.1328632087171; Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:28:07 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.101.3 with HTTP; Tue, 7 Feb 2012 08:27:47 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: From: Harsh J Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 21:57:47 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: Re: How to set up output field separator? To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 That property is probably just for streaming, used with KeyFieldBasedComparator/Partitioner. You may instead set mapred.textoutputformat.separator for the TextOutputFormat in regular jobs. Let us know if that works. On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Mark Kerzner wrote: > Hi, all, > > I've tried this > > configuration.set("map.output.key.field.separator", ","); > > but it did not work. How do I set the separator to another field, from its > default "tab"? > > Thank you, > Mark -- Harsh J Customer Ops. Engineer Cloudera | http://tiny.cloudera.com/about