unicode()

Returns an INTEGER representing the unicode codepoint of the first character in the string.

Arguments & returns

unicode(string)

Scalar
Overload link string Returns
#01 VARCHAR INTEGER

Example

unicode example
SQL
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Used in larger rewrites 1

These examples use unicode as one part of a larger SQL translation.

Snowflakeunicode()

UNICODE(foo)
In DuckDB
CASE WHEN foo = '' THEN 0 ELSE UNICODE(foo) END

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