remove surrounding quotes from fields while loading data into hive

Question

I want to load a table with input data into hive. I have data in the following format.

"153662";"0002241447";"0"
"153662";"000647036X";"0"
"153662";"0020434901";"0"
"153662";"0020973403";"0"
"153662";"0028604202";"0"
"153662";"0030437512";"0"

I want to load this data into a table with two varchar columns and one int column.But the surrounding double quotes trouble me. I have created the following table.

CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE Table(A varchar(50),B varchar(50),C varchar(50))
ROW FORMAT DELIMITED
FIELDS TERMINATED BY '\;'
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'

STORED AS TEXTFILE

but the quotes around the field also become part of field as shown below.

"276725"    "034545104X"    "0"
"276726"    "0155061224"    "5"

I want to ignore them. Also I want the third field to be read as INT. Currently it becomes NULL when I provide third field as INT while making table.

Answer 1

You will have to use Csv-Serde for this.

CREATE TABLE Table(A varchar(50),B varchar(50),C varchar(50))
ROW FORMAT SERDE 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.OpenCSVSerde'
WITH SERDEPROPERTIES 
(
    "separatorChar" = ";",
    "quoteChar"     = "\""
)  
STORED AS TEXTFILE;