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Improve documentation for nullif kernel (apache#6658)
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* Improve `nullif` docs

* Improve documentation for `nullif` kernel
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alamb authored and adbmal committed Nov 2, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -22,10 +22,25 @@ use arrow_buffer::buffer::{bitwise_bin_op_helper, bitwise_unary_op_helper};
use arrow_buffer::{BooleanBuffer, NullBuffer};
use arrow_schema::{ArrowError, DataType};

/// Copies original array, setting validity bit to false if a secondary comparison
/// boolean array is set to true
/// Returns a new array with the same values and the validity bit to false where
/// the corresponding element of`right` is true.
///
/// Typically used to implement NULLIF.
/// This can be used to implement SQL `NULLIF`
///
/// # Example
/// ```
/// # use arrow_array::{Int32Array, BooleanArray};
/// # use arrow_array::cast::AsArray;
/// # use arrow_array::types::Int32Type;
/// # use arrow_select::nullif::nullif;
/// // input is [null, 8, 1, 9]
/// let a = Int32Array::from(vec![None, Some(8), Some(1), Some(9)]);
/// // use nullif to set index 1 to null
/// let bool_array = BooleanArray::from(vec![Some(false), Some(true), Some(false), None]);
/// let nulled = nullif(&a, &bool_array).unwrap();
/// // The resulting array is [null, null, 1, 9]
/// assert_eq!(nulled.as_primitive(), &Int32Array::from(vec![None, None, Some(1), Some(9)]));
/// ```
pub fn nullif(left: &dyn Array, right: &BooleanArray) -> Result<ArrayRef, ArrowError> {
let left_data = left.to_data();

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