unhex function

Applies to: Databricks SQL Databricks Runtime

Converts hexadecimal expr to BINARY.

Syntax

unhex(expr)

Arguments

• expr: A STRING expression of hexadecimal characters.

Returns

The result is BINARY.

If the length of expr is odd, the first character is discarded and the result is padded with a null byte. If expr contains non hex characters the result is NULL.

Examples

> SELECT decode(unhex('537061726B2053514C'), 'UTF-8');
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Related functions

• hex function