Raw functions

Use the Raw function to obtain the length of the data in a column containing raw data.

The function is in the Raw category. The examples show the function as it appears in a Derivation field in the Transformer stage.

RawLength
Returns the length of a raw string.
  • Input: input string (raw)
  • Output: result (int32)
  • Examples. If mylink.rawdata contains the raw data from a bitmap, then the following function returns the size of the bitmap in bytes:
    RawLength(mylink.rawdata)