Blob data

The final data type to cover in East is the "blob", which represents a collection of binary data similar to a file on your computer. The term "blob" is an old term, and has been given the backronym "binary large object".

Its primary usage in East is to represent files that might be uploaded, downloaded or manipulated on the Elara platform. In this section you will see how to convert strings to and from UTF-8 encoded blobs, and how to encode and decode CSV files inside an expression.