@COLSTAT

Use the @COLSTAT function to return an indicator to Extract or Replicat that a column is missing, null, or invalid. The indicator can be used as part of a larger manipulation formula that uses additional conversion functions.

Syntax

@COLSTAT ({MISSING | NULL | INVALID})

Examples

Example 1

The following example returns a NULL into target column ITEM.

ITEM = @COLSTAT (NULL)

Example 2

The following @IF calculation uses @COLSTAT to return NULL to the target column if PRICE and QUANTITY are less than zero.

ORDER_TOTAL = PRICE * QUANTITY, @IF (PRICE < 0 AND QUANTITY < 0, @COLSTAT(NULL))

Example 3

In the following example @IF calculation uses @COLSTAT to store Infinity in the target column if the denominator is zero, otherwise, return the result of numerator/denominator.

table example colmap(quotient = @if(@coltest(denominator, 0), @colstat(INFINITY),
(numerator/denominator))