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ASF GitHub Bot commented on METRON-616:
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Github user cestella commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-metron/pull/392
@ottobackwards Yep, the `TO_$TYPE` stellar functions should work with
inputs that are strings or numbers of other types. To wit,
* `TO_FLOAT('1231')` should yield a float (`1231.0f`) from the input string
* `TO_FLOAT('12.31')` should yield a float(`12.31f`) from the input string
* `TO_FLOAT(1231)` should yield a float (`1231.0f`) from the input int
* `TO_FLOAT(12.31)` should yield a float(`12.31f`) from the input double
> Add Support in Stellar for Long and Float Literals
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> Key: METRON-616
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/METRON-616
> Project: Metron
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Josh Meyer
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> Currently Stellar only supports literals for doubles and integers. However,
> it is possible for functions to return longs and floats. An example, are the
> timestamp functions. These will return a long. It would be useful for a
> Stellar user to also use Java style floats and longs (eg. 3L, 3F, 3.3f,
> etc.).
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