Create HIVE Table with multi character delimiter

FILELDS TERMINATED BY does not support multi-character delimiters. The easiest way to do this is to use RegexSerDe:

CREATE EXTERNAL TABlE tableex(id INT, name STRING) 
ROW FORMAT 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.contrib.serde2.RegexSerDe'
WITH SERDEPROPERTIES (
  "input.regex" = "^(\\d+)~\\*(.*)$"
)
STORED AS TEXTFILE 
LOCATION '/user/myusername';

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