austin362667 opened a new issue, #6708: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/6708
**Describe the bug** The string array functions `length()` and `bit_length()` should not return `length` as signed integer. **To Reproduce** <!-- Steps to reproduce the behavior: --> See https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/blob/5ad621fd97032796f3da2d02948e65513de8c891/arrow-string/src/length.rs#L47 and https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/blob/5ad621fd97032796f3da2d02948e65513de8c891/arrow-string/src/length.rs#L111 **Expected behavior** Should return unsigned integer, since there are no negative length in our context. **Additional context** Thanks for @alamb bringing this up in the discussion on https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/6671#discussion_r1826570314 Note: The actual [Arrow spec](https://arrow.apache.org/docs/cpp/compute.html#string-transforms) uses integer types. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
