encode
function
Applies to: Databricks SQL
Databricks Runtime
Returns the binary representation of a string using the charSet
character encoding.
Arguments
expr
: A STRING expression to be encoded.charSet
: A STRING expression specifying the encoding.
Returns
A BINARY.
The charset must be one of (case-insensitive):
‘US-ASCII’
‘ISO-8859-1’
‘UTF-8’
‘UTF-16BE’
‘UTF-16LE’
‘UTF-16’
Examples
-- Wrap encode in hex to normalize UI dependent BINARY output.
> SELECT hex(encode('Spark SQL', 'UTF-16'));
FEFF0053007000610072006B002000530051004C
> SELECT hex(encode('Spark SQL', 'US-ASCII'));
537061726B2053514C
> SELECT decode(X'FEFF0053007000610072006B002000530051004C', 'UTF-16')
Spark SQL