Re: is SUBSTRING's behavior desireble?

[Dmitriy Ryaboy]

I mean min(str.length, endIndex)

:-)

-D

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Dmitriy Ryaboy <dvrya...@gmail.com> wrote:
> currently, Pig's SUBSTRING (in piggybank) takes parameters (string,
> startIndex, endIndex).
>
> If endindex is past the end of the string, an error is logged and the
> string is dropped (a null is returned). This is consistent with Java's
> String.substring().  It seems to me that while this makes sense in
> Java, this is not desirable in Pig where you can't catch an exception,
> do runtime length checking, etc. I would prefer to have SUBSTRING
> avoid the Java exception by calling str.substring(beginIndex,
> min(str.length-1, endIndex)).
>
> Thoughts?
>
> -D
>