Can I split a command over multiple lines in Apache Pig Latin?

Question

I have some very long lines as Apache Pig (Latin) expressions. Is there a way of splitting these over multiple lines?

I've tried a trailing backslash to no avail, as soon as I press enter the (incomplete) command executes...

Answer 1

I'm writing at a Pig 0.8 grunt shell and I just hit return and it gives me a continuation prompt ">>". It doesn't appear to have any problem splitting individual statements over multiple lines in interactive mode, which is what it sounded like you were asking about. You can also feed a script with multiline statements to Pig via STDIN.