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Eli Reisman updated PIG-2879:
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Attachment: PIG-2879-4.patch
Is this on the right track? Thanks again
> 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
> 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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