Issue using Delimiter

[kdp8791]

Is there a reason why the delimiter is only allowed to be one character? Running into an issue where data from an unload also has the same characters as the delimiter. Getting invalid data type exceptions as the parser is splitting up the data in the wrong places. Is there a recommended way to handle this type of scenario?

[brianmhess]

For now, that is a limitation. Performance can be optimized a bit if we have this limitation (versus the general case). We can consider lifting this limitation - which may make sense when revisiting the parsing code. In the meantime, you could consider replacing those delimiters with a single delimiter (using sed). Since you can read from stdin, folks have had success with running: cat file | sed | cassandra-loader.