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Daniel Dai updated PIG-4038:
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Resolution: Fixed
Fix Version/s: 0.14.0
Assignee: Philip (flip) Kromer
Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
Status: Resolved (was: Patch Available)
+1. Patch committed to trunk. Thanks Philip!
> 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
> Assignee: Philip (flip) Kromer
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: null, sprintf, udf
> Fix For: 0.14.0
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> Attachments:
> 0001-PIG-4038-SPRINTF-returns-null-on-any-null-argument.patch
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> 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.
> (See PIG-3939 for SPRINTF implementation)
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