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Subject: Re: Substring comparator for column key
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 20:30:56 +0530
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For filtering rows based on column key ( i hope that's what you asked), =
there is no direct filter as far as i know.
But i think you can use "ColumnPrefixFilter" which selects only those =
keys whose column name matches a particular prefix (some sort of =
substring matching using regex).  =20


./Zahoor
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On 21-Aug-2012, at 3:27 PM, Shagun Agarwal <shagun@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>=20
> There is SubstringComparator which can be used with =
SingleColumnValueFilter for substring filter however this works for key =
value. Is there any way to do a substring filtering for column key?
>=20
> Thanks
> Shagun


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