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[jira] [Updated] (PIG-4038) SPRINTF should return NULL on any NULL input

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-4038?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Philip (flip) Kromer updated PIG-4038:
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    Attachment: 0001-PIG-4038-SPRINTF-returns-null-on-any-null-argument.patch

attached patch: docs, test, code

> SPRINTF should return NULL on any NULL input
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>
>                 Key: PIG-4038
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-4038
>             Project: Pig
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: internal-udfs
>            Reporter: Philip (flip) Kromer
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: null, sprintf, udf
>         Attachments: 0001-PIG-4038-SPRINTF-returns-null-on-any-null-argument.patch
>
>
> SPRINTF will currently interpolate the string 'null' if supplied with null arguments, which is "helpful but not help-ing". This patch makes it return null if any argument -- format or fodder -- is null.



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