Binary Objects to Strings

This node converts the binary object cells to string cells.

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Column selection
Column containing the binary objects that will be converted to strings.
Decoding
Character set used to decode the binary object bytes into a string. Common choices are UTF-8 (the default), UTF-16, and US-ASCII.
  • US-ASCII: Seven-bit ASCII (ISO646-US / Basic Latin block of Unicode).
  • ISO-8859-1: ISO Latin Alphabet No. 1 (ISO-LATIN-1).
  • UTF-8: Eight-bit UCS Transformation Format.
  • UTF-16BE: Sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, big-endian byte order.
  • UTF-16LE: Sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, little-endian byte order.
  • UTF-16: Sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, byte order identified by an optional byte-order mark.
Output handling
Determines whether to append a new string column or to replace the selected binary object column.
  • Replace: Replaces the selected binary object column with the string column.
  • Append: Appends a new string column to the table.
New column name
Name of the appended column. Only applicable when "Append" is selected.

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Table that contains the binary objects that will be converted.

Output Ports

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Input table with string column either appended or replacing the binary objects.

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