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isNull

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isNull - Amazon QuickSight

isNull evaluates an expression to see if it is null. If the expression is null, isNull returns true, and otherwise it returns false.

Syntax

isNull(expression)

Arguments

expression

The expression to be evaluated as null or not. It can be a field name like address1 or a call to another function that outputs a string.

Return type

Boolean

Example

The following example evaluates the sales_amount field for null values.

isNull(salesAmount)

The following are the given field values.

20.13 (null) 57.54

For these field values, the following values are returned.

false true false

The following example tests for a NULL value in an ifelse statement, and returns a human-readable value instead.

ifelse( isNull({ActiveFlag}) , 'Inactive', 'Active')
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