how to replace characters in hive?

Question

I have a string column description in a hive table which may contain tab characters \'\\t\', these characters are however messing some views when c

Answer 1

You can also use translate(). If the third argument is too short, the corresponding characters from the second argument are deleted. Unlike regexp_replace() you don't need to worry about special characters. Source code.

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+UDF#LanguageManualUDF-StringFunctions