Hi Sonia, We checked in UDFs for this into trunk, and will be a part of a future release (0.11). Please take a look at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2443 to apply the patch to your version, or just to use it externally.
In addition, this patch also includes IsFloat, IsLong and IsDouble. Thanks, Prashant On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 3:19 PM, sonia gehlot <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Is there is any way in Pig to check either the field is integer or not. > > I have a pig script with a field coming as string and I am expecting it to > have always integer value, but due to some data nuisance field might > contain string and in such cases when I cast it to integer it throughs an > error (can't convert string into integer). Is there is any way where I can > use case statement say if the field integer then cast it to integer else > put '-1'. > > Thanks for any help, > Sonia >
