The join() function in StringUtils or Google's Joiner class is what you're looking for.
-----Original Message----- From: Raghav Kumar Gautam [mailto:raghavgau...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 6:52 AM To: user@hive.apache.org Subject: Converting Array to a String I used function collect_set(col) on a table got an array as output. I want to cast it to string for furthur processing. Is there a function to accomplish this. With Regards, Raghav.