To give some context, the null semantics in Pig follow SQL's.  In SQL, null is 
viral, so any operation with null results in null.  The idea is that null means 
unknown, not empty.  So concat('x', unknown) = unknown.

Alan.

On Nov 2, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Yang wrote:

> looks a more intuitive result should be "something" , right?
> 
> but on my system it gave null

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