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Jonathan Coveney commented on PIG-2443:
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I don't think it's too confusing, I would just explicitly state the purpose of 
the UDF. It is a fair one, and is something that I've done manually before, so 
I think it makes sense to ask. Just document the purpose, and more importantly, 
what it doesn't do.
                
> [Piggybank] Add UDFs to check if a String is an Integer And if a String is 
> Numeric
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>
>                 Key: PIG-2443
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2443
>             Project: Pig
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: piggybank
>            Reporter: Prashant Kommireddi
>            Assignee: Prashant Kommireddi
>         Attachments: isIntNumeric.patch, isIntNumeric.patch
>
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> UDF that could be used to check if a String is numeric (or an Integer). 
> Several tools such as Splunk, AbInitio have this UDF built-in and companies 
> making an effort to move to Hadoop/Pig could use this.
> Use Case:
> In raw logs there are certain filters/conditions applied based on whether a 
> particular field/value is numeric or not. For eg, SPLIT A INTO CATEGORY1 IF 
> IsInt($0), CATEGORY2 IF !IsInt($0);

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