Apache Pig - String Functions

We have the following String functions in Apache Pig.

S.N.	Functions & Description
1	ENDSWITH(string, testAgainst) To verify whether a given string ends with a particular substring.
2	STARTSWITH(string, substring) Accepts two string parameters and verifies whether the first string starts with the second.
3	SUBSTRING(string, startIndex, stopIndex) Returns a substring from a given string.
4	EqualsIgnoreCase(string1, string2) To compare two stings ignoring the case.
5	INDEXOF(string, ‘character’, startIndex) Returns the first occurrence of a character in a string, searching forward from a start index.
6	LAST_INDEX_OF(expression) Returns the index of the last occurrence of a character in a string, searching backward from a start index.
7	LCFIRST(expression) Converts the first character in a string to lower case.
8	UCFIRST(expression) Returns a string with the first character converted to upper case.
9	UPPER(expression) UPPER(expression) Returns a string converted to upper case.
10	LOWER(expression) Converts all characters in a string to lower case.
11	REPLACE(string, ‘oldChar’, ‘newChar’); To replace existing characters in a string with new characters.
12	STRSPLIT(string, regex, limit) To split a string around matches of a given regular expression.
13	STRSPLITTOBAG(string, regex, limit) Similar to the STRSPLIT() function, it splits the string by given delimiter and returns the result in a bag.
14	TRIM(expression) Returns a copy of a string with leading and trailing whitespaces removed.
15	LTRIM(expression) Returns a copy of a string with leading whitespaces removed.
16	RTRIM(expression) Returns a copy of a string with trailing whitespaces removed.