Function: text.decode

Decodes given data to string, assuming the specified character set.

Each byte that cannot be correctly decoded using the specified charset is represented in the output by the \uFFFD codepoint.

Arguments

Arguments
data	bytes The input to be decoded.
charset	string The IANA charset name; e.g. UTF-8, US-ASCII, ISO-8859-2. Case-insensitive. Default: UTF-8.

Returns

The decoded text.

Raised exceptions

Exceptions
ValueError	If the charset is unsupported.

Examples

# Return "Hello World" using `text.decode` function
- assignStep:
    assign:
      # Assign Base64 text "Hello World"
      - base64Text: "SGVsbG8gV29ybGQ="
      # Decode Base64 text into bytes
      - decodedBytes: ${base64.decode(base64Text)}
- returnStep:
    # Decode bytes to string
    return: ${text.decode(decodedBytes, "UTF-8")}