Great thanks Prashant! On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Prashant Kommireddi <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi Sonia, > > We checked in UDFs for this into trunk, and will be a part of a future > release (0.11). Please take a look at > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2443 to apply the patch to your > version, or just to use it externally. > > In addition, this patch also includes IsFloat, IsLong and IsDouble. > > Thanks, > Prashant > > On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 3:19 PM, sonia gehlot <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi Guys, > > > > Is there is any way in Pig to check either the field is integer or not. > > > > I have a pig script with a field coming as string and I am expecting it > to > > have always integer value, but due to some data nuisance field might > > contain string and in such cases when I cast it to integer it throughs an > > error (can't convert string into integer). Is there is any way where I > can > > use case statement say if the field integer then cast it to integer else > > put '-1'. > > > > Thanks for any help, > > Sonia > > >
