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Transformation Language Reference

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BINARY_CONCAT

Concatenates two or more binary values together and returns the concatenated value.

To use the

BINARY_CONCAT

function, set the environment variable

INFA_ENABLE_BINARY_FUNCTIONS

to True or Yes.

Syntax

BINARY_CONCAT( value1, value2 [, value3] … [, valueN] )

The following table describes the argument for this command:

Argument	Required/ Optional	Description
value1	Required	Binary datatype
value2	Required	Binary datatype
value3 - valueN	Optional	Binary datatype

Return Value

Binary.

NULL if all the input values are null.

Nulls

If any one of the input values is null then

BINARY_CONCAT

ignores it and returns the concatenated value of the remaining input values.

If all the input values are null then

BINARY_CONCAT

returns null.

Example

The following example concatenates two binary values.

BINARY_CONCAT( SYSID1, SYSID2 )

SYSID1 (Shown in Hex)	SYSID2 (Shown in Hex)	RETURN VALUE (Shown in Hex)
0x000102030405060708	0x000102030405060708	0x000102030405060708000102030405060708
0x000102030405060708	0x0405060708090A0B	0x0001020304050607080405060708090A0B
0x000102030405060708	NULL	0x000102030405060708
NULL	0x000102030405060708	0x000102030405060708
NULL	NULL	NULL

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BINARY_CONCAT

BINARY_CONCAT

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Return Value

Nulls

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