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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?

Sudar
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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