I want to find if a string contains another string in Pig. I found that there is a built-in index
function, but it only searches for characters not strings.
Is there any other alternative?
You can use this :
X = FILTER A BY (f1 matches '.*the_word_you're_looking_for.*');
More information here : http://pig.apache.org/docs/r0.10.0/basic.html#comparison