Dear Spark Dev Community, I am wondering if there is already a function to solve my problem. If not, then should I work on this?
Say you just want to check if a word exists in a huge text file. I could not find better ways than those mentioned here <http://www.knowbigdata.com/blog/interview-questions-apache-spark-part-2#q6> . So, I was proposing if we have a function called *exists *in RDD with the following signature: #returns the true if n elements exist which qualify our criteria. #qualifying function would receive the element and its index and return true or false. def *exists*(qualifying_function, n): .... Regards, Sandeep Giri, +1 347 781 4573 (US) +91-953-899-8962 (IN) www.KnowBigData.com. <http://KnowBigData.com.> Phone: +1-253-397-1945 (Office) [image: linkedin icon] <https://linkedin.com/company/knowbigdata> [image: other site icon] <http://knowbigdata.com> [image: facebook icon] <https://facebook.com/knowbigdata> [image: twitter icon] <https://twitter.com/IKnowBigData> <https://twitter.com/IKnowBigData>
