GetBytes

Description

Returns a byte array for a string input.

Syntax

GetBytes(string_expression[, charset_expression])

Arguments

  string_expression - any string expression

  charset_expression - string_expression indicating the output encoding. The default is UTF-8. See the list of available character sets here.

Examples

GetBytes('Hello World')  returns the byte array of the UTF-8 string 'Hello World'.

Return value datatype

Byte array

Impact of null value

If input is null, returns null.