[jira] [Commented] (PIG-2879) Pig current releases lack a UDF startsWith.This UDF tests if a given string starts with the specified prefix.

["Anuroopa George (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Anuroopa George commented on PIG-2879:
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Thanks Eli
                
> Pig current releases lack a UDF startsWith.This UDF tests if a given string starts with the specified prefix. 
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>                 Key: PIG-2879
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2879
>             Project: Pig
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: piggybank
>    Affects Versions: 0.10.0
>            Reporter: Anuroopa George
>            Assignee: Eli Reisman
>              Labels: features, patch
>             Fix For: 0.11
>
>         Attachments: PIG-2879-1.patch, PIG-2879-2.patch, PIG-2879-3.patch, PIG-2879-4.patch
>
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> Pig current releases lack a UDF startsWith.This UDF tests if a given string starts with the specified prefix.This UDF returns true if the character sequence represented by the string argument given as a prefix is a prefix of the character sequence represented by the given string; false otherwise.Also  true will be returned if the given prefix is an empty string or is equal to the given String.

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