Apache Pig - String Functions

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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.
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