make_valid_utf8
function
Applies to: Databricks Runtime 15.4 and later
Returns a string in which all invalid UTF-8 byte sequences in strExpr
, are replaced by the Unicode replacement character (U+FFFD
).
Examples
– Simple example taking a valid string as input.
> SELECT make_valid_utf8('Spark')
Spark
– Simple example taking a valid collated string as input.
> SELECT make_valid_utf8('SQL' COLLATE UTF8_LCASE)
SQL
– Simple example taking a valid hexadecimal string as input.
> SELECT make_valid_utf8(x'61')
a
– Example taking an invalid hexadecimal string as input (illegal UTF-8 byte sequence).
> SELECT make_valid_utf8(x'80')
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- Example taking an invalid hexadecimal string as input (illegal UTF-8 byte sequence).
> SELECT make_valid_utf8(x'61C262')
a�b