snowflake.snowpark.functions.hex_decode_binary¶
- snowflake.snowpark.functions.hex_decode_binary(input_expr: Union[snowflake.snowpark.column.Column, str]) Column[source]¶
Decodes a hex-encoded string to binary data.
- Parameters:
input_expr (
ColumnOrName) – the hex-encoded string to decode.- Returns:
the decoded binary data.
- Return type:
Column
Example:
>>> df = session.create_dataframe(['48454C4C4F', '576F726C64'], schema=['hex_string']) >>> df.select(hex_decode_binary(df['hex_string']).alias('decoded_binary')).collect() [Row(DECODED_BINARY=bytearray(b'HELLO')), Row(DECODED_BINARY=bytearray(b'World'))]