Hive load CSV with commas in quoted fields

Question

I am trying to load a CSV file into a Hive table like so:

CREATE TABLE mytable
(
num1 INT,
text1 STRING,
num2 INT,
text2 STRING
)
ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS         


        

Answer 1

If you can re-create or parse your input data, you can specify an escape character for the CREATE TABLE:

ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY "," ESCAPED BY '\\';

Will accept this line as 4 fields

1,some text\, with comma in it,123,more text