What if you've 10 fields?

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 4:30 AM, Ruslan Al-Fakikh <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I think you could mimic it with an expression like this:
> b = foreach a generate ((field1 is null) ? ((field2 is null) ? null :
> field2) : field1);
>
> Hope that helps,
> Ruslan
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Something Something <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Is there a UDF in Piggybank (or somewhere) that will mimic functionality
> of
> > the COALESCE function in MySQL:
> >
> >
> >
> http://www.w3resource.com/mysql/comparision-functions-and-operators/coalesce-function.php
> >
> > I know it will be very (very) easy to write this, but just don't want to
> > create one if one already exists.  I looked but couldn't find one.
> >
> > Please let me know.  Thanks.
> >
>

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