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Milind Bhandarkar commented on PIG-796: --------------------------------------- Can't the user simply do: {code} foreach input generate (chararray)((int)mymap#'key') as myvalue; {code} Minimizing implicit casting is a good thing (tm) anyway. > support conversion from numeric types to chararray > --------------------------------------------------- > > Key: PIG-796 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-796 > Project: Pig > Issue Type: Improvement > Affects Versions: 0.2.0 > Reporter: Olga Natkovich > -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.