Finding the length of a string – Apache Hive & Apache Impala

Apache Hive, Apache Impala, Cloudera Impala 4 comments

The LENGTH() function returns the length of a string. Both leading and trailing spaces at the begin and end of the string is included when calculating the length. 

  • Note: The below specified function is common in both Apache Hive & Apache Impala.

Syntax: LENGTH(String)
This accepts both characters and numbers in the input but returns INT value.

Examples:
length function in hive

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