You may simply try the below if it helps... CASE LENGTH(colname) WHEN 0 THEN NULL ELSE colname
if needed , use substring to derive the 'colname' from your json tuple.. and apply / extend the same logic regards Dev On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 11:35 PM, Binal Jhaveri <binal...@gmail.com> wrote: > My input file is a json file. I am loading that into a staging table. Then > i am parsing the json using hive (Lateral view and json_tuple) and writing > to a final avro table. My issue is some json values have empty strings. I > want those empty strings to display as null.. > what is the best way to achieve this?? > -- Devopam Mittra Life and Relations are not binary