How to specify KeyValueTextInputFormat Separator in Hadoop-.20 api?

Question

In new API (apache.hadoop.mapreduce.KeyValueTextInputFormat) , how to specify separator (delimiter) other than tab(which is default) to separate key and Value.

Samp

Answer 1

By default, the KeyValueTextInputFormat class uses tab as a separator for key and value from input text file.

If you want to read the input from a custom separator, then you have to set the configuration with the attribute that you are using.

For the new Hadoop APIs, it is different:

conf.set("mapreduce.input.keyvaluelinerecordreader.key.value.separator", ";");